Journal of Educational Sciences > Volume 2, No. 1, 1990

Cognitive Learning and Its Effects on Personality Development / Ahmed I. Al-Safadi

Contemporary Muslims suffer from many problems. Education stands out as one of the most prominent of these problems.
A proof of the ineffectiveness of present education in the Muslim World is its failure to progress Muslims. and develop Islamic personalities. Thus. the paper is a serious search for cognitive learning as an effective learning that can realize the nation’s progress. and satisfy the learner.
Cognitive learning, was later researched, through the review of literature in the fields of: Islamic studies. neurophysiology. psychology. and education. The paper. however. limited itself to discussing three types of cognitive learning. These types - using the peculiar terminology of this paper - are; 1) rote learning; 2) Conceptual learning. and these are: a) knowledge conceptual learning, b) value conceptual learning.
The paper. then, in order to complement the inference. discussed three more topics in detail. These are: personality development. cognitive bridges. and teaching of cognitive learning.
Finally. it could be said that the paper is a rationale research in one of the Muslim‘s peculiarities. These are the characteristics of rationalization. consideration. reflection. and "attentive regarding.” However. it could still be questioned whether Muslim generations - within a cognitive learning system of education - can liberate themselves from Islamic alienation, escape regression, and detect their distinction.