ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN TEACHING AND LEARNING: AN ANALYSIS OF ISLAMIC EDUCATION NOVICE TEACHERS’ PRACTICES

Abstract

As an attempt for novice teachers to execute what they have learnt back in teacher training programmes into practices, they have still to face an array of tribulation during their initial years of teaching. New education policies required teachers to centre their students as focus in learning process, yet not all Islamic Education novice teachers able to conduct the learning and learning process by using student-centred teaching approaches. Thus, this study tends to address ten Islamic Education novice teachers’ experiences in interpreting their pedagogical-based knowledge during teaching and learning process. They were secondary school’s novice teachers from four different states in Malaysia and selected by using purposive sampling. As a source of evidence, qualitative semi-structured individual interviews were employed. The findings revealed on the challenges and issues that they were facing by adjusting to the reality of applying student-centred learning in the classroom.