نشریه مطالعات تربیتی و اجتماعی قرآن و عترت
پیاپی 2 (پاییز و زمستان 1397)

This study aimed to promote the rich culture of the Holy Quran and extract the behavioral principles which are necessary for teachers who are responsible for teaching the elementary school religious courses and Quran. In the Holy Quran, the way of religious promotion is based on teachings such as tolerance, self-improvement, evangel, warning, and humility that in this study, the ten cases of these principles were examined. These behavioral principles were often extracted from the verses that divine prophets, especially the Prophet Mohammad, were addressed as the behavioral models of the process of promotion of religious sciences. This descriptive-analytical study by applying these groups of verses and an Ijtihadi interpretation methodology collected the data through a library method and explained the research problem by taking advantage of Ahl al-Bayt’s sayings and lexical, interpretative, and ethical books. It is believed that the mentioned principles are among the ways to optimize the process of students’ religious education and teachers of religious courses link themselves to the source of divine knowledge, which is immune from any mistake and contributes to the improvement of the culture of education by using these principles.

The aim of religious educations in schools is students’ belief, moral, and worship education. Many efforts are done for realizing this purpose, but it is necessary to know that what students learn and experience in educational systems is not limited to obvious curriculum and, sometimes, other factors affect the formation of students’ experiences, thoughts, attitudes, values, acts, and behaviors in a broader, more sustainable, and more penetrating way. These factors, which are called hidden curriculum or unintended consequences, have many positive and negative effects on students. When students enter an educational system, they face the cognitive, physical, and social aspects of environment which each of them includes a hidden curriculum. Meanwhile, social environment is the most important and penetrating aspect of educational environments. Social aspect means the social relationships dominant in schools and the values promoted by mass media, especially, interactive media. The findings of this research, which are gotten from library written sources, showed that the causes of inefficiency of religious educations are including the macro social planning such as secularism dominant in the general flow of education and the development of digital media.

The purpose of humans’ creation is to direct them to the way of devotion. God delegated this great mission to the prophets and confirmed them with their miracles and traits so that they take humans to desired perfection and make lighted souls ready to meet the Lord. Meanwhile, God beautifully depicted the Prophet Mohammad’s unique miracle and the prophets’ lives and their ways to guide humans in the form of story; because sending a message indirectly through storytelling has more significant directional and educational influences on the audiences. The identification and review of the prophets’ educational principles and ways in Quranic stories solve many educational problems at different levels in an Islamic society and it is the reason why this descriptive-analytical research presents the prophets’ educational principles and ways in Quranic stories from Allameh Tabatabaei’s and Seyed Ghotb’s viewpoints by using library written sources. According to Al-Mizan fi Tafsir al-Quran and Fi Zelal al-Quran, the prophet’s educational principles are as follows: dignity, monotheism, self-esteem, graduality, morality, the reformation of human conditions and relationships, and honesty. In addition, the prophet’s educational ways are as follows: modeling, encouragement and punishment, warning and evangel, ignorance, and enjoining good and forbidding wrong.

Ethics is one of the great needs of human societies. Educational system plays an important role in moral education at the ages of childhood and after that and helps grow students’ personality, attitude, and awareness. This study aimed to analyze the book “Heaven’s Gifts” (elementary fifth grade) from the view of presenting moral teachings and suggest a proper curriculum in order that it can provide all necessary needs for moral education. This study applied a descriptive-analytical method. The book “Heaven’s Gifts” (elementary fifth grade, in the academic year 2017-2018) were reviewed and obtained 8 main and 28 sub-main components, as well as the frequency and relative percentage of each of them. Analyzing the book from the perspective of moral educational components showed that the most frequency belongs to the component of thinking with 56 cases. In this book, the least frequency is related to the components of honesty and order and there is no case for the component of discipline. The content of this book focuses never or less on some moral educational components. In other words, although moral education is one of the most significant factors of developing societies, this book does not equally cover moral educational components.

Nowadays, through expanding communication studies and increasing human knowledge, it becomes possible to use some ways to instill concepts into audiences. Meanwhile, some tools have being developed to damage religions and cultures and even the unique features of social networks have been helping it. A study on the ways applied by enemies to spread anti-religion and anti-culture propaganda demonstrates that media techniques are used for many of these ways related to make audiences neglect. Because of the particular features the cyberspace has and due to the novelty of this phenomenon, many parents do not have any opportunity, possibility, or sufficient ability to precisely know about the cyberspace and its functions. So, the lack of knowledge about this phenomenon harms a lot of family functions. There are some solutions to correctly use the cyberspace and decrease its damages. The present research investigates experts’ ideas about the various solutions to decrease its damages.

This study was conducted with the aim of theoretical and Islamic explanation of communication networks, at the present time, and its differences with the humanities of the west; thus, this study, which applied an analytical approach, collected the data from library written sources and some interviews with experts. The results showed that from the western view, what is often emphasized in communication networks is communication tools and the formation of communications among the members, but from the Islamic view, more emphasis is put on the levels, promotion, depth, and purpose of communications. Islam, like the humanities of the west, focuses on creating the global village, but in Islam, it is beyond the pragmatism and often based on the high depth of communications and these basics are related to not only human relations, but also other kinds of relations.