Journal of Islamic Education

Iran's Research Institute of Hawzah and University · Faculty of Behavioral Sciences; Dept. of Educational Sciences

The present article analyzes critical thinking, emphasizes the necessity of instructing critical thinking in the classrooms, and also studies the Islamic point of view in this regard. What is critical thinking? What is its importance in education? How is the development of and teaching critical thinking in the classroom? What are its applications f...

The aim of this research is to study the relation between self-understanding, moral judgment and moral behavior and compare them among two groups of normal adolescents and adolescents with conduct disorder. In this way, twenty normal adolescents (boys) and twenty adolescents with conduct disorder (boys), from middle and high schools in four educati...

This article aims to explain epistemology in the view of Sohrevardi and infer its educational implications. This is a qualitative, theory-building research with the highest level of interpretation and exaction, based on Smith’s view that validates the possibility of concluding educational implications from a certain philosophy and that there is a r...

The article aims to study the pathology of religious education of students in Iran's educational system, based on the previous research on the Present condition of religious education in schools and the indexes of Islamic teachings (Quran and Sonnat). First, some research is performed on religious education in the educational system, using the meta...

The purpose of this article is to analyze the features of Mahdawiat in school curricula. This research attempts to answer the following questions: Has the educational system of Iran designed goals to develop the culture of Mahdawiat? And does Iran systematically pursue these goals? Does the academic system enjoy curricula enriched with this culture...

This research studies human based on some aspects including nature, freedom and freewill, responsibility, self-consciousness, and perfect human from perspectives of "Islamic humanology" and "existentialistic humanology." Islam describes human as a bidimensional creature that has freedom and freewill to form his/her fate, while the school of existen...

Notification is a derived method from the Holy Quran that consists of speech or action of a mentor to inform and inspire mentored of something that he has forgotten, neglected, or is unaware of and should be remind of. The consequence of this method is awareness of the mentored so he can step in the right path. Ways of applying this method include...

Research in any field requires some reflection and a great deal of attention, of which religious education is not an exception. The most important reflection on this field includes critical thinking on research approach. This type of reflection can be called “meta-philosophy of religious education” that is a second order study of the nature and dom...

The aim of this research is to analyze the narrations about influential factors in sexual misconduct of adolescents and youths and preventive strategies. In this research, using hermeneutic and investigational method, the verses of the Holy Quran and narrations of the infallibles concerning educational methods of preventing sexual misconduct in ado...

Farabi, the founder of Islamic philosophy, also known as the second teacher (after Aristotle), is among the important philosophers of the world of Islam. His thoughts on ethical and axiological issues have formed the basis of philosophers and theosophers' thoughts on ethical and educational ethics. In this essay, the aim is to establish the axiolog...

Sexual education is one of the main topics in the field of education, which plays an important role in the formation of human's personality and affects human's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In spite of its importance, there are no suitable written educational programs related to sexual education in Iran. Consequently, the present article aims...

Debate is a discourse used to reach a common understanding with mutual effectiveness. Thus, debate, as one of the educational methods, was highly considered by Imams especially Imam Reza (PBUH) to solve challenging topics. Hence, this method is discussed and introduced in the present article. The article, which is based on a basic research and is d...

The aim of this essay is to study the position of “individualized teaching” in Iran's history of education. The analytic-descriptive method is used to study "individualized teaching," one of the modern methods of teaching, by studying its historical antecedents and drawing future perspectives. The conclusions show that based on Iran's past educatio...

The main subject of the present study is to address education from Allameh Tabatabai's perspective, with an emphasis on educational objectives and methods. The research is theoretical and is done using descriptive-analytic method. In order to gather needed information, library resources were consulted. Also, to complement the issues discussed, topi...

The aim of this essay, according to the importance of human education, is exploration of planning factors with regard to human education and perfection. Therefore, the exploration of these factors based on Imam Ali (PBUH) views that are discussed in Nahjolbalaghe. This research is a basic research, that uses library documents and references, and us...

In the present study, the role of virtue in understanding reality of the world and the placement of transcendence and inspiration in learning process from the standpoints of Islamic scholars were emphasized. Based on the model, learning could be divided into 3 levels including 1) learning in animal, 2) learning in man and 3) learning in spiritual i...

The present article seeks to assess comprehensive and limited approaches towards religion and its impact on the science of education. First of all these two approaches towards religion are carefully studied. Since there is naturally a possible difference between the advocates of every approach, advocates of the comprehensive approach are classed un...

This article reviews philosophy and limitations of Hejab in Islam and its educational effects as well as methods for internalization of Hejab. After reviewing philosophy of Hejab in Quran, sunah, reason and inward view, two basic philosophies of Hejab were obtained. First, preventing men’s motivation in society and then maintaining women’s security...

The main objective of the research turns to curriculum evaluation of the fourth grade Quran from the point of view of intended, implemented and attained curriculum. The necessity of this study contains the correction and review of fourth grade Quran. The research has been done in the form of evaluation studies accompanied by descriptive analytic me...

The indoctrination method is one of the main methods in religious education. Critiques of this method believe that we should use methods in education that lead to attitude changes in pupils. They believe that indoctrination method is a mechanical one that causes characters such as submission and obedience in pupils. Supporters believe that applicat...

The research studies the history of establishment of Hawzeh as an educational institute. In this way, based on historical resources, the research analyzes the grounds and causes of its development. Then, its cultural, scientific and educational condition in two years after its establishment is depicted. This is a basic library research of the descr...

The goal of this research is to identify and investigate the relationship between scientific, artistic, moral, religious behaviors with happiness of the university students. The statistical population of the research was all of the students of Shahid Bahonar University, Medical Sciences University, Islamic Azad University and Payam-e-Noor Universit...

One of the most important subjects of Islamic educational system is invitation to thinking which is man's "accepted differentia", and by which humanity is characterized. This ability is the origin of knowledge and also a source for man's different actions. When it comes to Islam's education system, the subject of 'thought' (or reason) has not been...

The present research aims to explain the place of reason and reasoning in Imam Hussein (a.s.)'s sirah (personal conduct) in the event of Ashura. The research having been conducted with an analytical – descriptive method denotes that although in history the event of Ashura is known to have taken place in the form of a military uprising or an epic, i...

In contemporary society the process of religious education should be along and commensurate with today's changes and it must also be innovative in reviewing religious education methods so that it could meet the needs of its addressees. This article aims to study the reasons which substantiate the existence of innovation in religious education. This...

This article seeks to study the goal of religious belief education on the basis of religious doctrines. The research method used in this article is inferential and analytical in the sense that first the concepts of belief, faith and their relationship have been investigated and then the nature of faith and its components according Islamic doctrines...

Different methods can be used for religious education in a family environment. In order for a person to find out which method is useful and effective, he should conduct a research into it through experimental studies. When it comes to the permissibility of the method, it is a jurisprudential issue that is answered and dealt with in Islamic sources....

One of the most basic issues of Islamic societies which have entailed profuse discussions is religious education. Precise explanation of religious education and identification of effective factors and obstacles in it are the duty of religion and educational sciences. This article, while focusing on this subject, seeks to find out as to what the eff...

The Relationship between Religious Attitude and Personality (A Case Study among University of Tehran's Students)

Through a historical-fundamental research and following an analytical-descriptive research method and by referring directly to Ekhvan al-Safa treatises, in this article it is tried to infer and propose some of educational implications attributed to Ekhvan al-Safa. By the present article, it would be well clear that they paid a lot of attention to e...

Speech is the most important social intervelation instvument as no communieation behaviour is so extended and effective like verbal communication and no communicative phenomenon is so ingrained with human life like verbal communication. The importance of this proposition appears only when it investigated throngh education viewpoint and Islamic appr...

The present study aim to investigate God's trust and consent religious concepts education efficacy as an independent variable in decrease of Tehran region no 9 high school girl's anxiety in group mode as a dependent variable. The instrument used in this study was Ketel's anxiety questionnaire. From among 200 students, 60 students whose anxiety scor...

The present study is aimed to achieve communicative skills based on innocent's way (peacc be upon him). To achieve this, communicative skills are firstly analysed through new science prospective and then through innocents view points to win defined framework for detecting communicative skills from innocents (peace be upon him) way, then by inrvesti...

Children and teenagers are national resources of any country. To we formal and informal programs in their education status are of authorities priorities. Countries came to use full capacity of indirect education in children's education because of pupil's often refusal of direct education method and exceeding endurance of indirect educations. Childr...

To compile consumption model according to society condition and its people due to fast population rise in recent decades and consequently increasing interest in exploitation of resources and also more consumption seems necessary. unlike some western viewpoints, in Islam religion consumption is not authentic per se but it should be in a way to actua...

Through a historical-fundamental research and following an analytical-descriptive research method and by referring directly to Ekhvan al-Safa treatises, in this article it is tried to infer and propose some of educational implications attributed to Ekhvan al-Safa. By the present article, it would be well clear that they paid a lot of attention to e...

The present research was conducted to investigate the relationship between religious attitude and personality features. To gather the required data for this research, three hundred and ninety students with different educational levels which were selected randomly from the University of Tehran received the questionnaires. The data involved in this r...

The present survey is to explore the attitudes of students to martyrdom including four categories such as the attitude to the concept of martyrdom, holy defense, seeking martyrdom and following from martyrs. It is also to find the influencing factors on the attitude and their predicting power is investigated, too. Research method - being used in th...

Based on philosophy of theoretical education and its inferential approach, theory and practices of education requires metaphysics. This approach insists on the presupposition that musts and values deduce from beings and realities. Also, every type of theoretical wisdom creates a certain kind of practical reason. Through this article, the author is...

Considering the role of textbooks in forming beliefs and values and the necessity of instruction for religious concepts through other subjects in one hand, and the importance of instruction for religious practical commandments in elementary levels in the other hand, this research is aimed to find a way which practical commandments including: pray,...

The establishment of educational objectives based on religious teachings and the creation of a clear horizon for younger generation requires deeper view toward religious belief and claims new methods and techniques. Therefore, to explain the philosophical bases of an excellent system in ontology, anthropology and theology and its application in edu...

Various branches are attributed to feminism which liberal feminism is the first of them and black feminism, post modern feminism and even Islamic feminism are the other ones can be considered in its historical career. All the branches discussed different ideas about equality or inequality of men and women and their differences. While liberal femini...

Suhrawardi and Bergson are from those groups of philosophers who paid a lot of attention to intuition. In this research, it is tried to deduce the educational implications of their philosophical bases. Studying the ontological, anthropological, axiological and epistemological bases of Bergson's philosophy, it is shown that time, evolution, intuitio...

Through a historical-fundamental research and following an analytical-descriptive research method and by referring directly to Ekhvan al-Safa treatises, in this article it is tried to infer and propose some of educational implications attributed to Ekhvan al-Safa. By the present article, it would be well clear that they paid a lot of attention to e...

The present research was conducted to investigate the relationship between religious attitude and personality features. To gather the required data for this research, three hundred and ninety students with different educational levels which were selected randomly from the University of Tehran received the questionnaires. The data involved in this r...

The present survey is to explore the attitudes of students to martyrdom including four categories such as the attitude to the concept of martyrdom, holy defense, seeking martyrdom and following from martyrs. It is also to find the influencing factors on the attitude and their predicting power is investigated, too. Research method - being used in th...

Based on philosophy of theoretical education and its inferential approach, theory and practices of education requires metaphysics. This approach insists on the presupposition that musts and values deduce from beings and realities. Also, every type of theoretical wisdom creates a certain kind of practical reason. Through this article, the author is...

The establishment of educational objectives based on religious teachings and the creation of a clear horizon for younger generation requires deeper view toward religious belief and claims new methods and techniques. Therefore, to explain the philosophical bases of an excellent system in ontology, anthropology and theology and its application in edu...

Various branches are attributed to feminism which liberal feminism is the first of them and black feminism, post modern feminism and even Islamic feminism are the other ones can be considered in its historical career. All the branches discussed different ideas about equality or inequality of men and women and their differences. While liberal femini...

Suhrawardi and Bergson are from those groups of philosophers who paid a lot of attention to intuition. In this research, it is tried to deduce the educational implications of their philosophical bases. Studying the ontological, anthropological, axiological and epistemological bases of Bergson's philosophy, it is shown that time, evolution, intuitio...

Considering the role of textbooks in forming beliefs and values and the necessity of instruction for religious concepts through other subjects in one hand, and the importance of instruction for religious practical commandments in elementary levels in the other hand, this research is aimed to find a way which practical commandments including: pray,...

Reason, emotion and practice are three important elements of moral education. Lots of discussions have been taken place on the significance and impact of reason and emotion in moral education. This research paper was not to find that if there is such a dualism between these two ones or a kind of unification between them, and that is because of the...

The present research aimed to study the relationship between religiosity and life satisfaction. For this purpose, four hundred students of Islamic Azad University of Tabriz were selected in a multi-stages clustering sampling method and also Mabad questionnaire and life satisfaction scale were used. By analyzing the data of research, it was shown th...

Using an analytical and descriptive method, this research paper was to explain Popper's approach to education in general, and the process of learning in particular. By reviewing Popper's ideas, it was clear that his thoughts involved an extended area of subjects such as philosophy of science, epistemology, metaphysics, mathematics, art and etc. His...

Presentation of theoretical model in Islamic education is a method in which theoreticians of Islamic education theorizing religious education in a systematic way. Indeed, being systematic is a distinguishing character of this method through other approaches and point of views toward Islamic education. In this view, Islamic educational system is a c...

Illustrating a portrayal of Imam Khomeini's great thoughts and explaining the philosophy of his glorified educational movement, this study was to find out the secrets of his words' deep influences on people's soul and spirit and also, opened a new way to educational discourses. Herby, Imam Khomeini's educational heritage should help authorities in...

There would be different approaches to cultural transformation of value based concepts such as martyrdom and altruism. However, it is difficult to judge which approach is the best one without having a general framework and strategy in which the concept is defined. The present study has tried to set out a strategy of religious education for cultural...

The present study was to recognize children's religious educational damages via interview with experts in educational sciences, psychology, religious knowledges, children's literature and primary school teachers. The questions of research are as follows: what are children's religious educational damages in primary schools based on the interviewee's...

The ethical jurisprudence (Figh Al-Akhlagh) and the educational jurisprudence (Figh Al-Tarbiat) are an interdisciplinary approach in which jurisprudential statements based on an ethical-educational view being studied; also the jurisprudential judgment of educational problem is issued. Moreover, ethical-educational analysis of jurisprudential judgme...

Islamic education meets various challenges today. Some of them have risen from the encounter between theism and materialism. Post modernism aroused such paradoxical standpoints among Muslim scholars that in one hand some scholars have taken it as a golden opportunity for religious education and a solution for revamping its weakness, and in the othe...

Dwayne Huebner is a leading contemporary theorist in the field of curriculum studies in general and spiritual curriculum in particular, known for shaking up the foundations of the field of curriculum. A thinker that scholars like Pinar consider him to be the most important mind in this field and are disappointed in his understanding without the gro...

To analyze the content of religious stories published for children and teenagers during 2001-2006, 291 religious story books from information center of Iran's book home (Khaneye Ketab) were selected for evaluation. Twelve categories were recognized in which each book was subtitled under a subject category. By subject, those books that featured prop...

For most of the psychologists who are working on the process of children's understanding of religious concepts it is a belief that teaching of religion to children should be delayed until they can acquire abstract thought. Through the present study, while it was critically assessed, this approach was presented. Referring to documents, the data requ...

Introduction: After the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, many politicians and thinkers turned their attention to the importance of education, and led to numerous efforts to transform the educational process. However, most research has focused on the theoretical aspects of education and neglected its practical dimensions. Ayatollah Mahdavi...

Introduction: One of the problems the educational system in Iran faces is the commercialization of education. This term can be interpreted in two ways: (a) commercialization as payment for services (education): In this sense, spending money to acquire knowledge is a common practice, aligned with the life of wise people, and is considered legitimate...

Introduction and Objectives: Education encompasses all aspects and domains of human life. Moral education has always been paid attention to as one of the most important, sensitive, and fundamental domains. Moral education is providing conditions and employing methods to foster, strengthen, and establish moral qualities, behaviors, and manners, whil...

Introduction and Objectives: Following the introduction of “spiritual education” into Iran in recent decades, this subject has garnered significant attention from researchers across various disciplines. Reflection in this area reveals that although considerable research in dissertations, theses, papers, and books has been conducted and published on...

Introduction and Objectives: Personal integrity refers to aligning our beliefs, values, and ideals with our actions and behaviors. In other words, personal integrity means consistency between words and actions. Numerous narrations address dual personality and hypocrisy, as outward appearance reflects inner reality, and language indicates the inner...

As a descriptive one, this research was to evaluate the literacy development among Muslim countries. The required data for this research were collected from related documents and were analyzed through using secondary method. Results showed that 78% of men, 64% of women, 71% of total numbers were literate and 267 million people were recognized illit...

The present research aimed to have an analytical study on the concept of "purification" in the philosophical and ethical works of Muslim scholars. The main question this study tried to answer was; in which cases "purification" was used for in the philosophical and ethical works, what did it mean in each case and what are its semantic elements. Thro...

This research was to find that to what extent the content of third year of high school textbook "religion and life" conforms to the approved objectives in cognitive area. The method of research was content analysis and its instrument was checkout form for the afore-mentioned textbook, the one which its form and content was validated by experts. Thr...

Imam Hussein (peace be upon him), the grandson of The Prophet Mohammad and as the third Imam of Shiites is the creator of a Second to none event in the history of mankind, an event which went beyond historical and geographical borders and became the cornerstone for human training. Self-esteem and esteem holding plays such a significant role in his...

This study is mainly to distinguish various meanings of patience in Quran, the word that connotes most fundamental moral and educational concepts in Quran. Then, it was also to infer its philosophical and educational implications. The key question of this study focused on the meaning of patience and its philosophical and educational implications. R...

This applied research article shows that advertising and promotional media influence effective teaching practices on enjoins what is right and what is forbidden. It was found that Television is the most influential media on the teaching practices. Also among the channels, channel four has been at the front. Also impact of promotional appeal on the...

The aim of present paper is the explanation of Allame Tabatabaee educational views based on the kinds of knowledge. The research approach of this study is qualitative and its method is descriptive – analytic through original references (resources). The findings indicate that we can find interesting aims and characters for content of curriculum. Thi...

This article represents some critical considerations about the first two chapters of the first volume of "An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education in the Islamic republic of Iran", written by Khosrow Bagheri. In the first chapter, the author introduces three approaches to Islamic Philosophy of Education and after explaining their characterist...

The main two aims of the present study are showing the key role of commanding to right and forbidding the wrong in emergence of twelfth Imam and encouraging the religious society for reconsidering the issue. The main difference of this study with the previous one is proposing a model to framework the issue of commanding to the right and forbidding...

The definition of "education" Has been considered from the past by the education scholars. The present paper will focus on the concept of education and provides a new definition of education based on a descriptive–analytical methodology and has sought to explain the balance of the applicability of the concept of education on the concept of the "mov...

Attention to the human senses as a starting point for thinking plays a major role in education as it is based on understanding and understanding cannot be separated from the senses. Visual perception due to its dominant over other senses is the most effective in improving the quality and quantity of learning. Cultivated sensibility supports learner...

Nowadays the issue of gender and the issues related to that have got the focus of researchers in different fields. Since the large part of one's understanding of "being man" or "being woman", his (her) responsibilities and expectations of him (her) has been formed in formal education system, so research studies must be conducted based on Islamic pr...

This historical-fundamental inquiry has considered the content of the book entitled “ customs of teachers” through descriptive-analytic methodology to shed light on the location of Maktab, the way it was managed, and the environmental of trainingeducation as far as human interactions, namely, Feqhi, moral, or conventional, has been concerned. In do...

This paper addresses the issue of spiritual training from the perspective of Allameh Tabatabaie. The paper has two sections; in the first, the concept of spiritual training has been addressed. the methodology used in this section is progressive analysis; that is, after the investigation and adaptation of the presuppositions from the philosophical a...

The aim of this research study is to shed light on the foundations, principles and the processes of compiling elementary school books in Iran in order to suggest appropriate principles and processes. This study is performed in two stages; in the first stage the methodology is documentary and opinionaires through which the opinions of the compiles h...

The aim of this research study is the investigation of the ways of knowing God in the poem books. In doing so, a collection of 15 poem books on God were selected; the methodology used is the qualitative deductive content analysis in which the unit of analysis is the poem. The analysis was based on the ways of knowing God, namely, the emanation of G...

Since in Islamic Educational Philosophy, the relationship based on amour and beneficence has been introduced as preferred model of human relationship, it is necessary to do profound investigation in order to recognize and formulate the theoretical principles of this model. For this purpose, it has been tried in the present article by using analytic...

This research study is an answer to some of the questions and ambiguities presented in the article “rethinking the approach and method of philosophy of education” in the book entitled “an introduction to the philosophy of education in Islamic republic of Iran”. This paper agrees with two of the critiques and added a new critique. The answers are pr...

The main aim of this study is to reconsider the cognitive theory of Farabi to extract some logics behind his theory for lesson planning. The methodology is descriptive-analytic and the analysis is interpretational-inferential. To this aim, Frabi’s methodology and cognitive theory are introduced. Then, his system for lesson planning has been represe...

The main aim of this article is the exploitation of the self training model from the perspective of Mashaa philosophy and its evolution; the secondary aim is determination of the basics and structure of such model along with the strengths and weaknesses. This research is descriptive analytic and the methodology used in analysis is interpretive- inf...

One of the ways of learning which is emphasized in Quran is learning wisdom. What is Teaching wisdom and what is its role in education? What are the different forms of wisdom? How is it different form argumentation? What are its influential conditions? What are the ways to pose the issue? What are the tools for acquiring it? What are the probable e...

The present article investigates the parameters of scientific morality in the school of Imam Khomeini. The methodology used in this paper is text analysis; the findings uncover that imam Khomeini pays specific attention to the correct training and adoption of customs and internalization of these in the process of education of soul. He believes that...

This study is carried out to determine the effectiveness of social-moral teachings of Hojorat Surrah on the communication skills of the students. Methodology is experimental pretest posttest control group. To this aim, from among district 2 schools in Tehran, through stratified random sampling, a school was randomly selected for the study. Then, in...

This study is an analytical-comparative investigation into the aims of social training in Iranian education from Alameh Tabatabie’s views. The aim of this investigation is the analysis of social training aims in Iranian education system and uncovering its similarities and differences with those of Alameh Tabatabie’s view. To this aim, the methodolo...

The aim of this study is presentation of the effects of globalization on the identity formation of teenagers. It is a fundamental-theoretical research which uses descriptive-analytical methodology and the data is intellectually-logically analyzed. To gather the data, library research was carried out and the sources used are both written and non-wri...

This study is a descriptive analysis of the wisdom based interpretational views on the elucidation of bringing faith form the marginal view (not focal) form Alameh Tabatabie and focal not marginal view of Ghazali interpretation perspective. The findings delineate that those verses that claim bringing faith in the will of God should be considered in...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of Quranic music and voice on the anxiety-before-exam of the third grade high school students. The methodology is experimental pretest posttest with control group. The instrumentation is exam anxiety (TAT) (Abolqasemi et al , 1375). The sample covers all the third grader high school students in Ba...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of Rahyan Noor tour on the cognitive-behavioral attitudes of the university students toward martyrdom through panel study. The researchers attempt to find whether the participants’ attitudes toward martyrdom differ before and after such visits. The population covers Mashhad university students who...

The aim of this study is the investigation of philosophical view of Mola Sadra about perfection and its training reasons of elements of education (aims and methods). The research methodology is qualitative and documentary- analytical elucidating his perspective about perfection and describing aims and methods of education based on this perspective....

The main of this study is the emphasis on the neglected role and place of spirituality conditions in the lesson plans of universities and higher education centers. This research is theoretical-analytical based on the investigation and comparison of different sources in two sections, namely, topic-oriented and mixed-method approach. In the first app...

The aim of this research is to elucidate the anthropological foundations of sexual morality from Islamic perspective using the descriptive-analytic methodology. In this perspective, human is not just the instinct and an enjoyment-seeking animal to be limited to using matrimonial willingness and freedom to satisfaction. But besides the common featur...

The aim of this article is to clarify the educational look at emotional relations of spouses from religious teachings perspective; the methodology used is descriptive-analytic. On such bases, some of the religious teachings within the capability of the spouses in terms of emotional relations have been contently described and their educational outco...