Ethics of Teaching and Learning in Omani Encyclopedic Literature: The Case of Kitab al-Diya
Contenu
- Titre
- Ethics of Teaching and Learning in Omani Encyclopedic Literature: The Case of Kitab al-Diya
- Sujet
- Educational interaction
- Ethics of teaching and learning
- Kitab al-Ḍiya
- Normative discourse
- Omani juridical encyclopedias
- educational identity
- Résumé
- This article examines the ethics of teaching and learning in Omani juristic encyclopedias through a study of Kitab al-Diya (the book of illumination) by Abu al-Mundhir Salama ibn Muslim al-Awtabi. It situates educational ethics within the broader context of Islamic encyclopedic traditions and addresses how such texts organized educational life beyond moral exhortation. The study argues that educational ethics functions as a normative discourse that structures teaching practice, regulates interaction, and shapes educational identity. Using qualitative content analysis of relevant sections of the encyclopedia and drawing on concepts from interactionist sociology, the article analyzes how the text codifies speech, conduct, and embodied presence within learning circles. The findings show that ethics in Kitab al-Diya operate as mechanisms for disciplining behavior, stabilizing interaction, and producing differentiated identities of scholar, learner, and ignorant through repeated practice. Knowledge is framed as a socially embedded practice measured by its ethical effects rather than by cognitive accumulation alone. Placed in dialogue with modern pedagogical thought, Al-Awtabi's conception is interpreted as reflecting historically specific social purposes of education, contributing to a contextualized understanding of Omani encyclopedic heritage.
- Est une partie de
- Frontiers in Education
- Editeur
- Frontiers
- Date
- 2026
- volume
- 11
- Titre abrégé
- Front. Educ.
- Ethics of Teaching and Learning in Omani Encyclopedic Literature
- doi
- 10.3389/feduc.2026.1820101
- issn
- 2504-284X
- Langue
- eng
- Source
- Frontiers
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