Islamic Work Ethics: Urgency and Evaluation of Its Curriculum in Indonesian High Schools

Abstract

Work activities in these recent periods are taking significant time from human life and giving the significant impact to the civilization, personal life, and the community. Issues occurred with the background of works, such as low motivation, depression, conflict of interest, discrimination, and family relationship issues. This research is aimed to answer the question how is the urgency of educating the Islamic work ethics in senior high school? And how is the teaching materials of Islamic work ethics for senior high school? Through library study, this research identified the significance of educating Islamic work ethic for students of senior high school. While, the available teaching materials of Islamic work ethics in senior high school, included in the Book of Islamic Religion Education, only covered the materials to promote hard works. Imam Ghazali explained the more fundamentals and adequate for educating Islamic work ethics, which covered 1) objectives and positions of work for human being; 2) types of works and its rank; 3) importance of knowledge for executing the works; 4) principles of fairness in works; 5) principles of Excellence in works. The formulation of teaching materials on Islamic work ethics can be applied by teachers of Islamic Religious Study and/or Teacher of Counselling and Advisory in their session for educating and nurturing the students of senior high schools.