ENGLISH: Character education in light of Quran and Hadiths: Does character education affects the academic achievement of students?

Abstract

Character being reacting in a decent (fairness, responsible) way to the circumstances, need to be taught to the students. the current research was designed to investigate the character education highlighted in the Quran and Hadith, and to identify the effect of character education on secondary school students’ academic achievement. For this purpose, stratified random sampling technique was used to select 1438 students from the population of grade 10 students of Hazara Division. A questionnaire was developed and used for gathering data from the respondents, which was validated by the experts. Cronbach reliability coefficient of the questionnaire was 0.712 which was got through pilot study conducted on 100 students. Frequency, Chart, mean, standard deviation, and regression analysis were used for the analysis of data. Results indicate that Quran teaches about some beliefs, framework of worship and adoption of life pattern of the Prophet (PBUH). Therefore it is important to adopt good character like remaining brothers and using dialogue to resolve issues, and fight against injustice and oppression otherwise you will be discouraged and weakened. Be guard against oppression as Allah will forgive you. Results of survey indicate that teachers train students to follow teachings of Islam, resolve conflicts and apologize in case of hurting each other. Furthermore, character education has profound influence on academic achievement of students. It is recommended that education department should show high concern and implement check and balance system to actually implement character education at schools. Additionally, the physical, mental level, socioeconomic and religious status of the students should be kept in mind during provision of character education to students.