نشریه علوم تربیتی از دیدگاه اسلام
سال چهارم شماره 1 (پیاپی 6، بهار و تابستان 1395)

The purpose of present study was to investigate the effective cultural, religious and economic factors in the formation of parenting styles in Andimeshk city families. The research was carried out by using mixed method exploratory design which implies collecting qualitative and quantitative methods. For doing so, Baumrind questionnaire and semi-structured interview were administered in quantitative and qualitative parts respectively. The study population consisted of 95 females high school students in Andimeshk city from which 75 students through simple random method were drawn. Then an interview with fifteen parents of the sample group were conducted. Quantitate data were analyzed by using frequency and percent distribution and qualitative by utilizing coding and categorization. The results revealed the predominant parenting style among parents was authoritative; parents’ religious beliefs, cultural atmosphere as well as economic status of the families were effective in determining parenting style. Results generally indicated that all of above factors were effective in child rearing.

This study aimed to compare Imam Ali’s and Victor Frankel’s views on the meaning of life. The research method was qualitative with deductiveÜ inductive text analysis approach. The study population included some of letters, sermons and aphorisms of Imam Ali compiled in Nahj alÜ Balagha and Victor Frankel’s works. The method of sampling was purposeful. For data analysis, it was applied description, comparison, categorization and conceptualization methods. Findings showed that the components of the meaning of life from the perspective of Imam Ali are: Theism, belief in the present life of this world and the hereafter, purpose of life, moral values, suffering and work. From Victor Frankel's view love, works and suffering were the most important resources of life meaning. While in Nahj al-Balagha, suffering, work and love (for God) were components of life meaning, living a purposeful life, faith in the present life and the hereafter, death, belief in one single God and moral values were considered as the most significant sources of meaning of life,which are the main differences between Imam Ali's and Frankl's view.

The present research was aimed to study the effect of implementing the training program of Rahmat Plan on marital satisfaction amongst housewives’ in Azna city. For doing so, from among housewives who had registered in the program sixty women were randomly selected and assigned into control and intervention groups (each group 30 participants). Before and after implementing the training program, ‘Enrich marital satisfaction test’ was administrated on the participants in both groups. The intervention group received the instructing courses in eight weeks, whereas women in control group were not offered the related courses. For analyzing data, T test and covariance analysis were used. The results indicated that implementing the instructing course of Rahmat plan led to increasing marital satisfaction among housewives.

The purpose of presnt study was to investigate how to answer to children’ questions about God. The main research question therefore was how we answer to children’s questions about God in a way that the answers be easily and fully comprehended and simultaneously do not cause any misunderstanding. For doing so, descriptive and inferential research methods were used. The findings of the study revealed two foundations as follows: children conceptions of God are totally influenced by their surrounding culture and the conception of God is abstract formed based on abstraction of the features of every day conceptions. This research also found that main principles in responding to children's questions about God are: providing active and dynamic social environment, attention and perception, scaffolding, and creating basic concepts. The result showed the main ways of responding to children’s questions are as: parable, simple intellectual reasoning, and step by step question-answer, storytelling, and group discussion methods.

In this article, Lyotard's ideas about theory of communication and language games, some principles and methods were extracted for improving communication in education. In Lyotard's theory of communication, four elements have main roles including an addresser, an addressee, sense and referent. In present study a teacher and a student as an ‘addresser’ and an ‘addressee ‘were considered. The remaining elements, i.e., ‘sense’ and’ referent’ in terms of the grade of education were different. Lyotard's language games can be viewed from different dimensions. On one hand, language games which are related to school and educational environment of home and society. On the other hand, language games in different lessons which become more complicated and professional in upper levels. Regarding these issues and multiple ways that teachers behave towards students according to their mental and educational needs in different grades, we believe that in primary school years using simple phrases, objective situations, considering students’ feelings and their environmental elements, and also different between language games of home and school are very important. Gradually using cooperative methods and interpersonal communication, caring about language games of different lessons and professional areas as well as social problems can affect communication process.

This study aimed to measure the level of organizational learning in schools, as an educational organization for preparing students to enter the knowledge job market. The method of the study based on the technique of collecting data and objective of the study was description-survey and applied research respectively. The data was collected by using a questionnaire consisted 61 close-ended questions based on Likert scale. Internal consistency was estimated using Cronbach's alpha. It was showed an acceptable internal consistency with alpha value.78. The study population was the Islamic non-profit high schools located in the second district of Tehran during the academic year of 1392-1393. The sample was recruited by using cluster sampling method. For doing so, at first five schools were selected randomly. Then the questionnaire was distributed to all principals and vice-principals at the selected high schools. Finally, 31 questionnaires were returned to the researchers for data analysis. Friedman test was utilized to determine the level of importance (ranking) the characteristics of a learning organization in the status que. The results showed the following characteristics in order of relative importance: continuous evaluation, the connection with the environment, continuous learning opportunities, information sharing, collaborative decision making, human resource specialists and common vision. Among principals, the common vision and proper understanding of it as well as continuous assessment had the lowest and the highest importance related to characteristics of a learning organization respectively.