Integrating indigenous and Islamic perspectives in the field of psychology
Background: Psychology and Psychology Education have been based on mainstream or general Psychology without neglecting the importance of indigenous psychology. The latter is necessary because the former originated and reflected the nature, culture or characteristics of people...
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2019
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/81272/1/81272_Integrating%20Indigenous%20and%20Islamic%20Perspectives-%20paper.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/81272/2/ICIIP%20Poster%20-%20Assoc.%20Prof.%20Dr.%20Shukran.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/81272/ https://fk.unud.ac.id/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ICIIP.pdf |
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| Institution: | Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia |
| Language: | English English |
| Summary: | Background: Psychology and Psychology Education have been based on mainstream or
general Psychology without neglecting the importance of indigenous psychology. The
latter is necessary because the former originated and reflected the nature, culture or
characteristics of people in other places which are not appropriate to be generalized to
other settings. An essential perspective in indigenous Psychology is the presence of
values subscribed by people in a population, including the religious-based values.
Objective: This paper discusses the importance of indigenous psychology, highlighting
the need to integrate it with the Islamic perspective. It also highlights the ways Muslim
scholars in various localities discussed the nature of human characteristics, from Islamic
and indigenous perspectives combined.
Source of Information: Review of literature on early scholars who discussed the nature of
human, the methods to study human, and the importance of studying human
characteristics.
Findings: There are various notions of Islamic perspective which have been found in the
work of Muslim scholars when they discussed the nature of human being. Three essential
notions have been identified, namely (a) the axiological notion (underlying principles
which govern their approaches to study human characteristics); (b) the epistemological
notion (the approaches in studying human nature) and (c) ontological notion (the scopes
of studies on human nature).
Significance: The input discussed in this paper could provide alternative description to
the general Psychology on human nature. It may also shed light on the ways to derive
Psychology knowledge from Islamic sources and integrate it with indigenous values. |
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