Investigating the effect of thoughtful stories taken from the biography of Hazrat Fatemeh on the moral growth of sixth grade female students in Shahrbabak

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the stories from the Fatima,s style life on the moral development of students using the philosophy for children program. The study was applied in terms of purpose and in terms of quasi-experimental method. In this study, a pre-test-post-test design was used with two groups of control and experience. The statistical population of the study consisted of all sixth grade female students in Shahrbabak primary schools. They were selected using random sampling and randomly assigned to two groups of 112 subjects. In the first stage, both groups responded to the pre-test questionnaire. In the next stage, the stories taken from the biography of Hazrat Fatemeh were told to the experimental group in 10 sessions of 45 minutes. But the stories were not presented to the control group and the students in this group did not have any conversations or questions or answers. At the end of the sessions, the questionnaire was presented again in the experimental and control groups. The data gathering tool was a researcher-made questionnaire with a five-point Likert scale. Validity of the questionnaire was based on the Delphi method and using the views of the education specialists. Reliability of the questionnaire was obtained using Cronbach's alpha test, which indicates a high or acceptable reliability (more than 0.8). At this reasearch the components of moral development were: righteousness, acceptance of responsibility, helping others, honesty, keeping one's promise and forgiving the mistakes of others. ...