پژوهشنامه تربیت دینی
پیاپی 1 (پاییز و زمستان 1394)

The present study has investigated the capacities and impairments of the educative method of story-telling. To achieve this goal, first we have defined and studied the concepts of "education" and "story"; then, we have explained the capacities of educative method of story-telling using the Quranic verses and traditions. And finally, we have investigated the impairments thereof. These impairments are divided into two groups: the impairments related to the content of the story and those related to the characters. In the section related to the capacities, items such as presenting role models to be followed and negative characters for getting lessons from, presenting pieces of advice, possibility of assimilating realities with stories and preparing the ground for accepting teachings have been mentioned. In the section regarding the impairments related to the content of the stories, the following impairments have been mentioned: telling meaningless and just-for-fun stories, superstitious and vain stories, telling false stories to teach lessons, not observing modesty, stories not suitable for the addressees, stories with no advice and lesson. In the section on impairments related to the characters, the following items have been mentioned: exaggeration and hyperbole in describing characters, not introducing good role models and introducing bad characters, introducing improper models, admiring negative models, an emphasis on depicting heroes, absolute approval of non-infallible models, expecting the addressee to follow the role models completely, and stating the story of bad models without analyzing their negative behaviors.

Women and especially mothers enjoy, due to their special capabilities, an exclusive status in religious and moral education of their children. The present study aims at explaining and investigating the capabilities of mothers in religious and moral education of their children and has been conducted based on religious as well as scientific findings. The research method is descriptive-analytical and inferential. To do so, after identifying and extracting the capabilities of women and mothers and their role in family system from the viewpoint of religious texts, it has analyzed the content of those texts to investigate the capabilities of mothers in this regard in religious and moral training. Mothers and women, due to their exclusive bio-social capacities, their enjoying a special emotional status, their being equipped with verbal and non-verbal capabilities, immunizing by good housewifery, and their capacity for learning by observation have a decisive role in religious and moral training of their children.

Fostering belief in Islamic doctrines is among the greatest goals in the sphere of religious training. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to present those doctrines by using proper devices in this age so that the religious doctrines and concepts may be most effective for the addressees and not ignored by them. In the present article, we have tried to introduce various devices that can be effective in fostering belief in religious doctrines (especially that of resurrection), to investigate their strong and weak points, and to state the ways for promoting their quality. This study emphasizes that in the present age, the best, the strongest and the most effective device for fostering belief in religious doctrines – especially the important doctrine of resurrection – is nothing except drama which must be used in a more specialized way in this regard.

Educational "spheres" is a far-reaching subject in the literature of today's science of education, which prepares the ground for more precise studies in the various dimensions of human education. Despite the importance of this scientific domain on the one hand and propounding the various spheres of human education on the other hand, the criterion for demarcation of those spheres has been of little concern; and this has caused the common classifications in the studies on the spheres of education to suffer from some serious drawbacks – at least from the viewpoint of religious education. The common classifications are largely based on one-dimensional, secular, humanistic, and divisionist views with a scattering nature, and suffer from five drawbacks: narrowness, evading content, evading education, evading partition, and evading unity.
The present study is seeking to study human being from three aspects of ontology, anthropology, and education to present a criterion for determining certain spheres and demarcating them based on religious concepts in a way that it may be free from the abovementioned drawbacks. In this study, the following twelve criteria have been investigated: human's position in the universe; the philosophy of education; the purpose of education; perfection and climax; human characteristics; the three sides of insight, trend and action; the dimensions of human existence; human needs; human weaknesses; human capabilities; human relations; and educational musts.

The present study aims at evaluating curricula prepared by Maktab al-Quran al-Karim pre-school institute based on the guidelines enacted for pre-school curricula of Ministry of Education. The research method is of the type used for evaluating curricula which analyzes, in a descriptive-analytical way, the elements of Maktab al-Quran's curriculum from the expert's viewpoint in various disciplines including linguistics, studying religion, children's psychology, educative psychology and sociology. The statistical sample was composed of 60 experts of children's issues and interdisciplinary experts in six provinces including Tehran, Semnan, Razavi Khorasan, Guilan, Qom as well as cities of Tehran province selected through purposeful sampling in 1392-1393 SH.
The measuring device was a constructed interview whose content validity was confirmed by the experts of the council for pre-school planning in Office of Compiling Textbooks. The reliability of the test was calculated to be 0.98 for the expert's questionnaire, obtained through Cronbach's Alpha Coefficient. The analysis of the findings was done descriptively using the SPSS software. The findings showed that the elements of goals of Quranic teachings, the content of pictures in the books of Maktab al-Quran, the technique of collective recitation, and individual evaluation are in the highest harmony with the guidelines enacted for pre-school period.

The present study aims at extracting the model of "Islamic Lifestyle in Family" and explaining it from the Ayatollah Jawadi Amoli's viewpoint. It has been conducted through descriptive-analytical method. The findings show that in Ayatollah's view: 1) marriage is the link of two souls and a celestial sacred affair; 2) the foundation of family is rational and humane friendship, not sexual desire; 3) formation of family is based on woman's affection and attraction on the one hand and man's management in sustenance and defense [of family] on the other hand; 4) Islamic family is based on two virtues: rational affection and generous tolerance; 5) in their procreation, the parents are channels of Almighty God's grace of creation; 6) upbringing children means "nurturing generosity" which is an unparalleled virtue; 7) relationship with blood relatives is an innate need and a mechanism for creating links between members of the small society of relatives, which prepares the ground for prosperity of larger societies.