نشریه مسائل کاربردی تعلیم و تربیت اسلامی
سال ششم شماره 18 (بهار 1400)

The main purpose of this study was to design an optimal model for the religious education curriculum at a preschool.

In terms of objective, the present study is an applied one that has been done by qualitative method and through research synthesis.
The statistical population consisted of all the domestic research related to the subject matter in the period of 1379 (SH) to 1399 (SH) and 1999 to 2019, and from among them,  55 (including 41 domestic and 14 foreign) studies as the samples were selected purposefully, and analyzed through the Roberts six-step model.

The main finding of this study was to make a proposal for the religious education curriculum at a preschool. The proposal consisted of 10 elements based on the Akker’s approach.

In the religious education of preschool children, all the aspects of a young learner’s existence must be considered with a holistic approach. The ultimate goal is flourishing the nature and good life of a child, and it can be achieved through the intermediate and behavioral goals of a young learner. The educational content should be based on religious teachings and educational objectives, and it should be provided for a learner through a teaching-learning activity appropriate to the interests and developmental needs of the children by an educator with moral, religious and professional competencies. The educator should mainly play a model and guidance role, and accelerate the flourishing of religious nature in children. The instructional materials should be varied, and selected as a package. An instructional space should have happy liviely facilities for play, and stimulate children’s curiosity. Evaluation should be a process and carried out using various tools such as behavior observation, workbook and parental opinion.

The aim of this study was to investigate relation between parental-child relationships and religious identities in students with a gender-moderator role. The present research was a descriptive-correlational study. The statistical population of the study included all students of Tehran universities (68800 students) in 1397-98 that 400 people were selected as a sample using multi-stage cluster sampling method. The tools used in the present study were the National and Social Identity Questionnaire of Solgi et al. (2015), the parent-child relationship questionnaire of Farndi Fine et al. (1983). Hierarchical regression and Z test were used to analyze the data. Data analysis was performed using SPSS-25 software. The results showed that the mean scores of women in relations with father and relations with mother were higher than men and there was a significant correlation between religious identities with relations with father and relations with mother.Predictive variables along with the interaction effect of gender with parent-child relationships explain  12% of the variance of religious identity. In the parent-child relationship with  religious identities, the male gender has played a more moderating role. Thus, it seems that gender can affect the relationship between parent-child relationshipsand religious identities.

This study aimed to explain the parents’ attitude towards their children with disabilities based on religious belief and social support through the mediating role of marital satisfaction.

This was a descriptive cross-sectional study. The statistical population included 200 parents of the students in the schools and care centers for the students with disabilities in Tabriz. The parents were selected through the available sampling method. They completed the questionnaires on parental attitude, marital satisfaction, social support, and religious belief. The software of SPSS-25 and AMOS-18 was used to analyze the data.

The findings of the correlation coefficient showed that there was the highest correlation (0.59) between the positive parents’ attitude towards the children with disabilities and religious belief. Furthermore, the findings of path analysis showed that the highest path coefficient was related to the effect of parents’ attitudes through religious belief (0.38), as well as marital satisfaction, and social support (0.20) respectively.

According to these findings, the strong religious belief of people in the society and marital satisfaction and social support will cause the parents to have positive attitudes towards their children and accept them better.

The present study aimed to validate the talent management model of elementary school teachers in Iran, and determine its fitness.

The study was done by a combined exploratory method in the academic year 2019-2020. In the qualitative phase of the study, the research method was deductive content analysis, in which 5 comprehensive themes of identification, recruitment, selection, employment, development and maintenance were extracted, and then according to the comprehensive themes, 10 organizing themes: identifying elite people, motivating to recruit elites, fitting a person to a job, electing qualified people, fully utilizing the capabilities of people, providing performance conditions, increasing individual knowledge, improving job and professional skills, teachers’ excellence and well-being, and integrating people with the job of a teacher, and 40 basic themes were extracted. After confirmation of the validity and reliability, through the opinions of experts and specialists in educational sciences, in the quantitative part of the study, a descriptive-survey method was used to developing a questionnaire. The statistical population consisted of a small number of elementary school principals, deputies, and experts from education departments: experts of the elementary education, human resource promotion, administrative affairs, in education departments and the experts at the Farhangian universities. The sample size was 377 people who were selected based on the table of Cohen et al. by multi-stage random sampling method. After confirmation of the validity of the questionnaire and the obtained reliability (0.74), through Cronbach’s alpha, the modeling method of covariance-based structural equations was used to validate the research model.

All themes with high factor loading were confirmed, which indicated that the validity and reliability of the model was high.

The implementation of this model can facilitate the realization of the goals of education in finding, recruiting and maintaining elite and effective people.

This study aimed to identify how parents can answer to their children’s religious questions.

To achieve this objective, the phenomenological method was used. The statistical population included all parents with primary school children in Bandar Lengeh. The sample size was 35 people, and they were selected by purposive method according to the theoretical saturation limit. Data collection tools were also semi-organized and in-depth interviews. The interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed through the seven-step Colaizzi method.

The findings showed that there were 3 main themes along with some sub-themes. Children’s questions revolved around the questions about Allah, death, the Hereafter, the Prophet, Islam, the creation of the world, acts of worship, and natural disasters. Many parents used some incorrect methods such as inappropriate responses to cognitive development, language development, and comprehension. Furthermore, suppressing of children’s questions, presenting stereotyped answers, not answering their questions, postponing answers were used by parents, but some parents used the correct methods for answering religious questions, such as using allegory, answering, using the child’s tangible knowledge to answer, using games, providing correct answers in accordance with religious sources, and searching for better answers.

According to these findings that parents lack the necessary knowledge about cognitive development and educational methods, the institutions involved in education need to plan to teach the parents about answering children’s questions in accordance with principles such as cognitive scaffolding.

This study aimed to investigate the effect of thematic memorization of the Qur’an on the students’ self-regulation.

The research method was quasi-experimental. The statistical population included all the seventh grade junior high school female students in Farahan, Markazi province, Iran, who were studying in the academic year 2020-2021. From among the junior female high schools, and from among the seventh grade classes, one school and two classes respectively were selected randomly. There were 30 students in the both classes which were randomly divided into the experimental and control groups. For this purpose, a pretest-posttest design with a control group was used. The Beaufort’s self-regulation questionnaire was used to collect the data of the study. After confirming the face and content validity of the questionnaire, its reliability was calculated through Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.85. The analysis of covariance and ETA coefficient were used to analyze the data.

The findings showed that thematic memorization of the Holy Qur’an promoted 34.8% of students’ self-regulation.

Therefore, it can be said that the level of students’ self-regulation can be improved thanks to the memorization of Divine verses and familiarity with the Holy Qur’an.