The Effect of Teaching Philosophical Stories on the Spirit of Research and Self-Directed Learning of Second Year Elementary School Students

The aim of the present research was the effect of teaching philosophical stories on the spirit of research and self-directed learning of second year elementary school students.

The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of this research included all students of the second year of elementary school in Morvdasht city. For the sample size, 50 students were selected using the purposeful sampling method and were replaced in two experimental groups (25 people) and control (25 people) and were measured with two questionnaires of Shirzad's research spirit and the self-directed learning questionnaire of Fisher et al. The collected data were analyzed at two levels (descriptive statistics and inferential statistics). At the level of statistics, mean and standard deviation were used, and at the level of inferential statistics, covariance analysis methods were used.

There is a significant difference between the research spirit of the experimental and control groups in the post-test stage, and there is a significant difference between the self-directed learning of the experimental and control groups in the post-test stage.

The results showed that teaching philosophical stories and research spirit of students has a significant effect. Teaching philosophical stories and self-learning has a significant effect for students.