پژوهش نامه تربیت تبلیغی
پیاپی 7-8 (بهار و تابستان 1394)

The present research aims at identifying solutions to deepening religious education as a major concern in the contemporary society of Islamic Republic of Iran. This research explains three groups of approved solutions including cognitive, affection, and performance organization solutions. The review and interpretation method of research is used to collect data required to achieve goals. The Quranic verses and Islamic traditions as well as the related research records have been collected on note-taking forms and then analyzed. To help identify the actual self -identity, creating proper insight, promotion of intellection, training wisdom, knowing media literacy, developing the doctrine of critique, and knowing consequences of behavior are among cognitive solutions to refer. The solutions to the affection dimension also include flourishing the innate nature, developing the sense of self-value, promoting the sense of respecting other people’s desires, deepening the affections of belief, and so forth. The presence of religious education experts in cyberspace, making accessible the virtual tools for Islamic education, supporting producers of religious content, practical planning for self-evaluation and accounting, the parent’s supervision and accompany, and so on, are among solutions to performance organization referred to in this research.

Satellite receiver is a communication media which can be used as a means to expand domination of foreign cultures, promotion of moral deviations, and social disturbances and disorders. Meanwhile, by watching bad satellite TV programs morality and family values gradually fade inasmuch as many anti-values become value. In fact watching satellite programs can cause damages to Islamic culture and values. The present research, taking an interpretation phenomenology approach, aims to study the role and damages caused by watching satellite programs specifically Farsi One to morality and Islamic values. An interpretation phenomenology approach and content analysis method have been used to understand the lived experiences of the people. The samples include 10 M.A. and PhD students of psychology and education sciences at Kharazmi University, 10 families livening in the city of Karaj, and 10 elementary school teachers. The sample was watching satellite and Farsi One programs at least for one year. Data was collected using in-depth and semi-structured interview. The collected data was noted down and then analyzed using WAN methodology. Based on findings of the research, the most important identified damages of satellite and Farsi One programs include destruction of family relations, fading religious beliefs, pornography, anti-educational effects, anti-values induction, cultural invasion, falsification of news and wide rumors, disregarding privacy, promotion of fashionism, promotion of Western life style and consumerism, promotion of promiscuity, showing violent films, and excessive tendency to watching satellite serials.

In addition to the modern educational, informational, and entertainment usages of social networks, lack of full knowledge of them may have some threats that can cause marital crisis. The present research, using a qualitative phenomenology method, aims to study the effects of social networks, membership on marital relation. 15 married students of Tabriz Medical Sciences University have been selected and interviewed based on purposive sampling. Data was analyzed based on qualitative content analysis. The findings show that membership of married students in virtual social networks has 2 main themes and 14 sub-themes. The main themes extracted of the research are the causes of inclination and the membership consequences. The sub-themes of the causes of inclination include: making easy social relation, compensating role, entertainment, performing class projects, being economical, existence of different facilities to transfer data, being informed of the news, information, ideas, and making use of life skill education networks. The sub-themes of membership consequences include: sense of marital betrayal, weakening of affective relations, being skeptical about the spouse, lowering of face-to-face relations, ignoring the sexual needs of the spouse, intervention of others in personal life, and lack of responsibility to the life.

The main purpose of this research is to explain and evaluate internet and social networks opportunities and challenges for social education. The questions of the research are proposed as follows: what is the relation between internet and social networks and social education? What are internet and social networks opportunities and challenges for social education? The research uses a critical-descriptive and quantitative content analysis method. The results show that the most important opportunities for social education in internet and social networks include: encouraging the users to participate in useful social contributions, passing through geographical boundaries and knowing different people, societies, and cultures, creation and promotion of collective wisdom, freedom of beliefs and ideas, and exercising social skills. The main threats also include: increasing social isolation and lowering actual social relations with parents, friends and relatives, priority of “identity creation” aspect of internet and social networks over its “identity making” aspect, making virtual intimate relations, threatening face-to-face relations, promotion of pornography, and disregarding the privacy.

The present study aims at explaining the religious education duties and functions of school considering the characteristics of cyber space. A qualitative research method and analytical- descriptive study is used. The results show that given the roles of cyberspace in different aspects of life, they can not be ignored in religious education of the students. The appropriate using of cyberspace is an essential function of the school which can be manifested in the proper using of Internet in the form of sites, weblogs, social media, software, and so on. Finally, a number of suggestions and solutions are proposed based on the results of the study.

“Internet addiction” is a serious damage caused by excessive use of internet. Today it may be considered as a threat for the education of the youth, teenagers, and even children. In addition to different damages caused by this matter including stress and lack of patience, affection disorders, anxiety, bad temper, and disruption of family and social relations it has many unpleasant consequences like weakening of religious beliefs, inclination to pornography and sexual matters, creating unhealthy social relations, lowering the influence of parents on children, increasing social deviations, seeking dangerous friends on internet, and so on. The present research, using an analytical method, attempts to study the consequences of internet addiction in three major religious education, moral and social dimensions.