Building academic and pedagogic cultures: A case study at Departement of Social Studies Islamic University in Indonesia

Teaching staffs in Islamic universities have an important role in realizing democratic values. The classroom is a space of freedom to think dialogue and reflect values. In the fact, teaching staffs do not have the maximum role in realizing the academic culture. The duty of teaching staffs in Indonesia that is teaching, research and community service, however there are some obstacles in the implementation, such as there are still lecturers who teach outside the field of expertise, the lack of research costs, the difficulty of international scientific publication and some teaching staffs have been comfortable in their position. Finally, they are unproductive to produce knowledge. This study aims to describe the academic culture of Islamic university teaching staffs, especially in teaching, research and community service. This research uses qualitative methodology with the descriptive approach, researchers get data from informants in the Islamic University in Indonesia and soft data taken from many documents. Then the data is processed and analyzed. The result of the research shows that building academic culture must synergize between various roles in class, such as didactic, reflective, and effective roles. Therefore, professionalism of teaching staff supported by various factors