Psychological Approaches to Various Types of Attention in Children’s Religious and Spiritual Education

Teaching spiritual concepts requires some characteristics in the trainee, including psychological features. Attention is one of the important cognitive abilities without which no spiritual education and learning would happen. Accordingly, the present article seeks to investigate the role and status of the process of ‘attention’ in children in the extent to which they accept spiritual education.
In this descriptive-documentary study, we have used the approach of spiritual education based on various types of education. The study showed that according to evolutionary model, attention is classified as follows: visual, auditory, transitional, stable, flexible, focused, selective and divided, and one cannot use just one method in spiritual education of children. Besides, children’s sex and age have special role in this regard, and include important points for spiritual educators. Spiritual education has various aspects whose realization is not possible without considering the evolution of various types of attention, and it requires more study and research.