Social Training from Imam Ali's (a) Point of View and the Program of Teaching Philosophy for Children

Social training is considered to be one of the important aspects of training system of Islam, so benefiting from the training teachings of Islam and enjoying the sayings of Infallible Imams (a) as the available pattern, play a decisive role in socializing students in our teaching system. With regard to the importance of the subject matter, attempt has been made in this article first to give a definition of the concept of social training and its objectives such as developing the spirit of justice seeking, accountability, loving spirit, cooperation and consultation, futuristic and foresighted outlook, developing critical thinking and moral apprehension from the perspective of Imam Ali(a) and then embark on assessing whether or not philosophy for children can play an effective role in the realization of these objectives. This study is based on an analytic-descriptive method. It goes without saying that the program of teaching philosophy for children owing to its social study is considered to be one of the suitable methods which leads to the training of well aware and thoughtful people, accountable and disciplined citizens and can bring in its wake a healthy and dynamic society for life. According to the conclusions of this study, a great deal of the skills that can be strengthened through the program of teaching philosophy for children, are the skills that are based on Imam Ali’s (a) point of view and has been referred to in this article.