Abstract

After the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, keeping physical distance and avoiding crowds are the most appropriate first step to prevent transmission of this outbreak. In education context, online learning is the most suitable and popular choice taken by almost every country, including Indonesia. However, various new challenges and problems arise, such as limited Internet access, reduced teacher-student interactions, and difficulties for teachers in controlling students’ engagement. Transformation, transactions and transinternalization as stages of internalizing Islamic values in students are experienced by teachers to be more difficult to be implemented in online than face-to-face learning. This ongoing qualitative research aims to describe the challenges and efforts of teachers in internalizing Islamic values in online learning during the pandemic. The data were obtained through observations of online classes and in-depth interviews with five secondary school teachers. Data analysis was carried out through the edutainment approach, which refers to a learning process that is relaxed, fun, and motivating so that it is the right choice to generate positive emotions to facilitate the process of internalizing values in students. The results of this study are expected to provide an overview of the problems of internalizing Islamic values in online learning and alternative solutions based on the principles of edutainment.

Key words: internalization, Islamic values, online learning, edutainment