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Suzana Suhailawaty Binti Md. Sidek

Academic Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Islamic and Other Civilizations) - Doctor of Philosophy, International Islamic University Malaysia
  • MASTER OF ART (ISLAMIC CIVILISATION) - Masters Degree, International Islamic University Malaysia
  • POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN ISLAMIC STUDIES - Post Graduate Diploma, IIUM ACADEMY of Graduate and Professional Studies
  • SARJANA MUDA SASTERA - Bachelor Degree, Universiti Malaya (UM)

Suzana Suhailawaty Binti Md. Sidek (Dr.)

Assistant Professor
IIUM Gombak Campus

KULLIYYAH OF EDUCATION

suzannasidek@iium.edu.my
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Area of Specialisation


  • Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Historical and Civilisation Studies ~ History of Civilisations - Islamic Civilization
  • Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Religious Studies ~ Religion and Civilisation - ISLAMIC AND OTHER CIVILIZATIONS
  • Social Science ~ Social Science ~ Community Development ~ Community Leadership - Civic Education and Community Service
  • Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Historical and Civilisation Studies ~ Other Historical and Civilisation Studies n.e.c. - History of Muslim Education


Professional Membership


  • 2020 - 2020 : Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Copy Editor), AL-SHAJARAH JOURNAL


Teaching Responsibilities


ADVANCE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF ISLAMIC EDUCATION 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019
ADVANCED HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF ISLAMIC EDUC 2019/2020 2018/2019
ADVANCED HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF ISLAMIC EDUCATION 2024/2025 2023/2024
CIVICS AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP 2024/2025
CURRICULUM OF MORAL EDUCATION 2022/2023
EDUCATIONAL MARKETING: PRINCIPLES & PRACTICES 2019/2020
FAMILY MANAGEMENT 2024/2025 2023/2024
HIST. & PHIL. FOUNDATIONS OF MALAYSIAN EDU. 2017/2018
HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MALAYSIAN EDUCATION 2025/2026 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016
HISTORY OF MUSLIM EDUCATION 2020/2021 2018/2019
INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATION 2024/2025 2023/2024
INTRODUCTION TO MORAL PHILOSOPHY 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020
MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP IN TERTIARY EDUCATION 2023/2024
MORAL PHILOSOPHY FROM ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE 2025/2026
PHILOSOPHY OF ISLAMIC EDUCATION 2023/2024
SCHOOL MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP 2020/2021
SOCIAL WORK FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: ISSUES, PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES 2022/2023
TOOLS FOR THINKING 2024/2025 2022/2023
USRAH 1 2024/2025
USRAH 2 2024/2025
USRAH IN ACTION 1 2022/2023
USRAH IN ACTION 2 2023/2024


Supervision


The Conceptualisation And Practices Of Social Solidarity For The Ummah From The Perspectives Of Selected Muslim Postgraduate Students In Malaysia.
Ph.D Completed 2025 Co-supervisor
Investigating The Influence Of Strategic Leadership Skills And The Role Of Supervisors On The Leadership Performance Outcomes Of The General Directors Of Education Sultanate Of Oman.
Ph.D Completed 2024 Co-supervisor
Exploring School Leaders’ Effective Problem-Solving And Decision-Making Practices In Times Of Crisis.
Ph.D Completed 2024 Co-supervisor
أثر تدريس برنامج مقترح في تنمية الحكمة لدى طلبة كلية علوم اللغات بجامعة ابن خلدون بالجزائر.
The Impact Of Teaching A Proposed Program On Developing Wisdom Among Students Of The Faculty Of Language Sciences At Ibn Khaldun University In Algeria.
Ph.D Completed 2024 Co-supervisor
تأثير التنمية المهنية للمعلمين على الالتزام التنظيمي والاستدامة في تعليم العربية للناطقين بغيرها في سلطنة عُمان.
The Impact Of Teachers' Professional Development On Organizational Commitment And Sustainability In Teaching Arabic To Non-Native Speakers In Oman.
Ph.D Completed 2023 Co-supervisor
أثر الاتصال التربوي الفعال لمديري المدارس على الدافعية والولاء التنظيمي للمعلمين في سلطنة عمان: الإشراف التربوي متغير وسيط.
The Effect Of Effective Educational Communication For School Principals On The Motivation And Organizational Loyalty Of Teachers In The Sultanate Of Oman Supervision Is A Mediator Variable.
Ph.D Completed 2023 Co-supervisor
The Roles Of Cultural And Social Capital In Higher Education Aspirations Among B40 And M40 Malay Students.
Ph.D Completed 2022 Co-supervisor
القيادة الأخلاقية وعلاقتها بالالتزام التنظيمي والإبداع الإداري لدى مديري مدارس التعليم الأساسي في محافظة الداخلية بسلطنة عمان.
Ethical Leadership And Its Relation To The Organizational Commitment And Administrative Creativity Of Principles Of Basic Education Schools In The State Of Dakhiliyah State Of Oman.
Ph.D Completed 2022 Co-supervisor
The Influence Of School Leaders' Strategic Leadership, Quality Assurance System Practices And School Culture On Risky Schools In Malaysia .
Ph.D Completed 2022 Co-supervisor
ممارسة معلمي التعليم ما بعد الأساسي للعلاقات الإنسانية وعلاقتها بدافعية التعلم لدى الطلبة وصحتهم النفسية في سلطنة عمان.
The Practices Of Post-Basic Teachers To Human Relationships And Their Relations To Motivation Of Learning In The Students And Their Psychological Health In The Sultanate Of Oman.
Ph.D Completed 2022 Co-supervisor
أثر جودة الخدمة في مراكز التدريب على ممارسة جودة التدريس من خلال التنمية المهنية لدى معلمي المدارس الحكومية في سلطنة عمان .
The Impact Of Service Quality In Training Centres On The Practice Of Teaching Quality Through Professional Development For Public School Teachers In The Sultanate Of Oman.
Ph.D Completed 2022 Co-supervisor
The Impact Of Social Class And Ability Group On Students Academic Achievement: A Case Study Of Primary Schools In North Sumatra Province, Indonesia: A Proposed Framework For Improvement .
Ph.D Completed 2021 Member Supervisory Committee
Distributed Leadership Practices, Teachers’ Self-Efficacy And Students’ Achievement In High Performing School In Klang Valley.
Ph.D In Progress Member Supervisory Committee
أثر استراتيجيات تدريب الموارد البشرية ونمط القيادة لتحسين الأداء الوظيفي في وزارة التربية والتعليم بسلطنة عمان.
The Impact Of Human Resource Training Strategies And Leadership Style On Improving Job Performance In The Ministry Of Education In The Sultanate Of Oman.
Ph.D In Progress Co-supervisor
Crisis Management In Teaching And Learning: A Case Study On Educational Administrators In Selected Institution Of Higher Learning In Malaysia.
Ph.D In Progress Co-supervisor


Research Projects


Completed
2018 - 2022 Modelling Strategic High Performance Transformative Education for TN50 World Class Education in pursuit of Malaysia?s Global Economic Competitiveness.
On-Going
2022 - Present CHARACTER EDUCATION FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AND PARENTAL COMMITMENT: A QUALITATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY IN TRUST SCHOOLS
2019 - Present HUMANIZING EDUCATION: A FRAMEWORK FOR MALAYS? STUDENT-CHARACTER BUILDING IN REALIZING THE NATIONAL PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION (FPK)
2017 - Present The Encyclopedia of Muslim Scholars of Nusantara Project (Part 2: 19th - 20th Century)
2016 - Present Teaching Future Studies: An Introduction to the Higher Education in Malaysia


Awards & Recognition


10 Jan, 2024 th University in Action Symposium Silver Award (Sejahtera Empowerment of Single Mothers) - Sejahtera Center, IIUM KCDIO
10 Jun, 2023 3rd University in Action Symposium Silver Award (Sejahtera Empowerment of Single Mothers) - Sejahtera Center, IIUM KCDIO


Publications


Articles

2025 Exploration of factors influencing teachers’ responses to student misbehaviour in Maldivian secondary education. International Journal of Emerging Perspectives in Education, 1 (1) pp. 33-44
2025 Parent-school-community partnerships in Indonesian, Kyrgyz and Tanzanian schools: an analysis of trends (2021 – 2022). NAMA International Journal of Education and Development (NIJED), 2 (1) pp. 103-124
2025 Policy of criminalization under Islamic criminal justice system: a new paradigm of analysis. Communications on Applied Nonlinear Analysis, 32 (9s) pp. 2941-2955
2024 Exploring financial sustainability in Islamic secondary schools: importance of good facilities in improving learning process. NAMA International Journal of Education and Development, 1 (2) pp. 77-100
2024 Financial sustainability in Islamic secondary schools: diversifying financial resources through Islamic social finance mechanisms. NAMA International Journal of Education and Development (NIJED), 1 (1) pp. 189-202
2024 School leaders’ leadership practices and their influence on crisis-related problem-solving and decision-making: a multi-site case study. IIUM JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES (ENGLISH), 12 (1) pp. 50-73
2024 The influence of personality traits on teachers’ communication styles. International Journal of Scientific Research and Management, 12 (12) pp. 3824-3825
2023 Enhancing teaching methods for Islamic education teachers in primary schools. Journal of Social Science and Humanities, 5 (6) pp. 32-37
2022 Educational strategic leadership practices among leaders of selected Malaysian risky schools. IIUM Journal of Educational Studies, 10 (1) pp. 3-21
2018 MUSLIM STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF WESTERN VALUES AS PRESENTED IN ENGLISH TEXT BOOKS: INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC SCHOOL MALAYSIA (SECONDARY) AS A CASE STUDY1. AL-SHAJARAH JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC THOUGHT AND CIVILIZATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA (IIUM, () pp. 241-266
2018 Muslim students’ perception of western values as presented in English text books: International Islamic school Malaysia (Secondary) as a case study. Al-Shajarah, Special Issue (Special Issue: Education, 2018) pp. 241-266
2018 THE USEFULNESS OF MUSIC AS A TOOL OF TEACHING ISLAMIC EDUCATION: TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVE1. AL-SHAJARAH JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC THOUGHT AND CIVILIZATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA (IIUM), () pp. 267-286
2018 The usefulness of music as a tool of teaching Islamic education: Teachers’ perspective. Al-Shajarah, Special Issue (Special Issue: Education, 2018) pp. 267-286
2017 Commodification of knowledge in higher education: Where is the seat of Maqasid Al-Shari'ah and Islamisation?. Al-Shajarah, Special Issue Education () pp.
Books

2021 The four rightly guided Caliphs: Abū Bakr, ‘Umar Ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, ‘Uthmān ‎Ibn ‘Affān and ‘Ali Ibn Abī Ṭālib. International Islamic School Malaysia ( IISM), ISBN: 978-967-26091-0-0
Book Sections

2025 Educational transformation. In: Centre for Islamisation (CENTRIS), IIUM, ISBN: 978-629-95416-1-5, pp. 219-232
2021 Cultural plurality, national unity and education in Malaysia. In: IIUM Press, ISBN: 978-967-491-049-5, pp. 113-127