Zakiyah Daradjat's Thoughts on Child Education Psychology

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to describe Zakiyah's rationale for child education, and find the concept of child education from the perspective of Islamic psychology, as well as its implications for Islamic education. This research method is library research, data collection techniques using documentation after the data is collected then analyzed by descriptive analysis and content analysis, the approach uses history, biography, and content analysis. The results of this study are the first: Zakiyah has a view on the basic concept of humans which has three main dimensions, namely, physical, psychic, and spiritual. Zakiyah called humans pedagogic beings, and then in his pedagogic process, Zakiyah based on convergence theory. The parenting style of education in children must be by the psychological condition of the child, namely in an authoritative style. Second: educating with an Islamic psychological perspective, will make children healthier in the soul, namely those who have excellent physical condition, high intellectual mental intelligence (IQ), mental health conditions that are mature and stable in their mental emotions (EQ), have high personality integrity (mental-social), and have the firmness of faith and Islam. Third, the concept of Islamic psychology, which has four dimensions, will have implications for Islamic education, which is to create a balance of human personality growth as a whole, by training the soul, mind, physical, and spiritual, because basically, education must strive for the growth of all human potential.