This study aims to reveal how the process of
modernization of education content on the
organization Muhammadiyah, Nahdlatul Ulama and
Al Jam'iyatul Washliyah years 1900-1942. The issues
raised are: (1) how the historical background in
modernizing education content of the three
organizations; (2), how the modernization process of
these organizations to arrange their education
content; (3), how the these organizations
dissemination of education content on the subjects.
This is solved by historical method comprising the
steps of: heuristics; second, verification;
interpretation; historiography, and social history.
The findings research informs: First, the three
organizations have the same background in
determining the education content, those are, first;
the spirit leaders spreading Islam in accupation
situation by orienting on Islamic education of the
occupation, second; the intellectual contact internally
an externally to conceive and build on the progress of
Islamic education. Third; The strong desire to equate
Islamic education progress with the western progress
(colonization), fourth; The desire to realize the
equality social among communities in receiving
education and the world of work. The second finding
is; the same formulate of education content material
Islamic teaching that originated from AD and ART,
but have different ways depending on modern
education content. Muhammadiyah with
revolutionary and Nahdlatul Ulama with
evolutionary, and Al Jam'iyatul Washliyah with
situasionery. the third finding is; the similarities of
education content modernization process using a
common and religious material. However they have
differences on the distribution of the content in the
subjects, Muhammadiyah is innovative and
NahdlatulUlama is creative and Al Jam’iyatul
Washliyah is very selective