Cognitive Methods in Reformative Education from the Viewpoint of Hadith

One of the dimensions of education is its reformative aspect, where the instructor strives to reform and alter the disliked qualities and behavior of the subject in social, religious, doctrinal, and political spheres, but these didactic efforts in the field of reformation require their own special method. This method may be studied in relation to its cognitive, emotional, and behavioral aspects. The present research, which has been carried out through an explicative study of the hadiths of the Prophet (s) and the Ahl al-Bayt (a) in the Imāmī hadith corpus, has derived methods such as explaining mistakes, teaching wisdom and argumentation, referral to innate nature, elimination of ignorance, call to reflection and thinking, analogy and simulation, illustration, change of wrong beliefs and debunking superstitions, which have all been employed in the field of reformative education, from the narrated teachings of the Prophet (a) and Ahl al-Bayt (a). narrated teachings of the Prophet (a) and Ahl al-Bayt (a).