Values Integration In Teaching

Army evolves with NIE

The Army is revolutionizing the way warfare is conducted and held a media day Wednesday at White Sands Missile Range to share some details about its evolution.

The Army is conducting its Network Integration Evaluation, a gigantic project involving hundreds of miles, thousands of soldiers and millions of dollars worth of equipment.

James Hayden Future Force Division chief, Materiel Test Directorate, WSMR said the NIE is evaluating many different data systems as part of the Army's tactical network. The objective of NIE is to get all the soldiers, from privates to commanders, sharing data over the same network system.

The tactical network is a piece of the program previously known as Future Combat Systems. FCS was originally conceived to modernize the Army by linking soldiers and manned and unmanned vehicles all together in a super data network. In 2009, the vehicle development portion was canceled, but the network concept remains and continues to be developed and tested.

Hayden said the Army is using some network technology in theater already. They are combining that with other networks one they are testing now and one he called "promising capabilities" and evaluating how everything works together at the same time. The networks support data, video and communications.

Hayden said soldiers and civilian workers are evaluating the integration to make sure they will be able to communicate and share data with each other and every level of Army command, no matter where they are. NIE participants are working in various locations all over WSMR, from Fort Bliss to Oscura, to make sure the new network works the way it is supposed to. He said all the sites are networked into WSMR's data network "backbone."

Hayden said WSMR had some of the same challenges to get the network into the canyons as the units face in the field. He said they used microwave signals to overcome the canyon challenge.

Hayden explained the aerostat seen floating above WSMR serves the purpose of bouncing the data link back from the mountain when troops don't have a line of sight back to headquarters.

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The crisis of duality or dichotomy that has weakened Muslim education and Muslim thought since the Muslim world was colonized by Europeans. This crisis manifests as teaching Islamic sciences separately from other disciplines by different teachers and in different institutions. The student is thus presented with two world views that are sometimes contradictory. This causes much intellectual confusion and a state of split mind that fits the description of intellectual schizophrenia. The crisis of duality is resolved by insisting that Islamic concepts should be taught by the same people who teach academic disciplines. At least at the level of the teacher the student is presented with one integrated body of knowledge. The un-Islamic division between the ‘religious’ and ‘the worldly’ is thus eliminated. The integration extends to the subject matter itself. The Islamic world-view should presented whenever any new concept of experience is taught. This is of course quite a challenge because the teacher may not appreciate the Islamic world-view as applied to his/her discipline. Lack of knowledge is not an excuse each teacher should make the effort to understand and interpret his/her discipline within the Islamic world-view. The integration should extend to examinations that must have issues on Islamic values embedded in the questions. The expectation is that our graduates will be able to integrate moral values in their knowledge and practice because they will have gone through an integrated education system. Integrating Islamic values in teaching follows the Islamic paradigm of reading 2 books, the book of revelation, kitaab al wahy , and the book of empirical science, kitaab al kawn . Both books contain signs of Allah, ayaat al llaah , and must be read together. It is a mistake to read one of the books and neglect the other. The solution to the crisis of duality in the ummah starts from joint reading of the 2 books, al jam ‘u baina al qira atain . Contemplation is meditation about Allah’s creations and signs with deliberation. It is a spiritual and not an intellectual exercise. It requires concentration therefore it is often undertaken at times and places where environmental sensory distractions are minimum. Contemplation of the nature of Allah is forbidden. Contemplation is possible only on signs and creations of Allah. . When one is in isolation, khalwat , he has special spiritual experiences.

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