Experiencing less apprehension and engaging religious communication: the team-based project learning practices

Abstract

This pre-experimental study aims to explore the efficacy of the Team-based Project (TBP) as a pedagogical approach to enhancing the acquisition of religious communication skills. The TBP was incorporated into a religious education module, addressing pivotal religious inclusivity and moderation themes amongst undergraduate cohorts. Participants were 288 students who participated in a TPB program. Our attention is drawn to the students’ deliberations on TPB activities during the preliminary phase and the initiation, groundwork, execution, and culmination of presenting the project via video. Two salient aspects of the educational outcomes emerged. Firstly, the TBP model proved instrumental in fostering elevated religious communication proficiencies amongst students. Secondly, there was a notable decline in communication apprehension attributable to students’ religious discourse. Such outcomes are intrinsically linked to the TBP's foundational elements of collaboration and dialogue. Furthermore, this investigation underscores the advantages and challenges inherent in employing video-based technological platforms as contemporary pedagogical instruments. Within the scope of this research, we delineate the protocols requisite for the TBP's methodologies to evaluate student accomplishments through an array of formative and summative assessments.

Keywords:

• Communication apprehension
• religious communication
• religious education courses
• team-based project

REVIEWING EDITOR:

• John Chiang, State University of New York, United States

SUBJECTS:

• Curriculum Studies
• Higher Education
• Teachers & Teacher Education

Disclosure statement

The authors declare there is no Complete of Interest at this study.

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Notes on contributors

Yusuf Hanafi

Yusuf Hanafi is a professor in Islamic studies (dirasat Islamiyah) at the Arabic Department, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang. He earned his bachelor’s degree in teaching Arabic from the State Islamic University of Malang, East Java, in 2000. He received an M.Fil.I. degree in Islamic thought in 2003 and a Ph.D. in Tafsir & Hadith in 2010 from the State Islamic University of Sunan Ampel, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. His areas of research interest include religious education and Islamic education.

Muhammad Saefi

Muhammad Saefi is a faculty member at the Biology Study Program (BSP), Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang. His areas of research interest include Biological education (including Microbiology laboratory teaching), Islamic education, and Its integration.

M. Alifudin Ikhsan

M. Alifudin Ikhsan is a Ph.D. student in civics education, faculty of social, law, and political sciences, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta. His area of research interest includes civics education, Islamic education and civics curriculum, models, and learning design.

Tsania Nur Diyana

Tsania Nur Diyana is a faculty member at the Physics Education Department, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta. Her research interests include physics education, Islamic education, and physics curriculum, models, and learning design.

Nur Faizin

Nur Faizin is a lecturer at the Faculty of Letters, State University of Malang. He is interested in Quranic Studies, Literature, and Linguistics, both theoretical and applied.

Abd Basid

Abdul Basid is a Lecturer in the Department of Arabic Language at the Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang. His research focuses on Tafsir and Quranic Sciences, Hadith Sciences, Islamic Studies, and Islamic Education.

M. Rizal Ramadhan

Mochammad Rizal Ramadhan is a faculty member at the Arabic Literature Department, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang. His research interests include Islamic education and curriculum, strategies, models, and learning media.