The Contribution of Values Education Activities that are Applied in Tirana Haxhi Mahmud Dashi Madrasa: A Case of Albanian Education System

Abstract

The present study aims to identify education, training activities, and the rehabilitating of the students with different lost values. As in many countries, many debates are scheduled about the importance and the role of these values which are lost values in education system in recent years in Albania. Therefore, a detailed examination is needed in the curricula and practices of education system to discover the values that should be gained by individuals and the differences in understanding or mentality about values. In this study, A research was made about the models of education structures that are used in Tirana Haxhi Mahmud Dashi Madrasa, in relation with it how we can equip respective students with the right understandings of values which are changing day by day depending on the changing of the world. The participants of this research are the teachers and students of Tirana Haxhi Mahmud Dashi Madrasa. In this study, both both qualitative and quantitative methods were utilized. At the same time the method of semi-structured interviews was used. In order to determine the subject, the school director, some teachers and students were interviewed and different discussions are made about the influence of this kind of activities on students. At the end of the study, the results demonstrate that the big role of extra-curricular activities in the development of universal and moral values of the students are put into practice in the education system of Tirana Haxhi Mahmud Dashi Madrasa. The limitation of this research was the effect and influence of these activities are limited, because the study was not focused on each and every student for measuring the degree of this effect. This research reveals that it is beneficial to introduce the importance of these activities in development of the system through considering as they are universal values among new generations and also they are being changed rapidly proportional to any change in the world. Therefore, the whole administrations should consider those values in order to put in the official curricula, and they should also organize and apply this kind of activities in order to give students a healthy and right mentality regarding universal values.

DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2014.v4n2p57