Designing and Validating the Ideal Curriculum Model with an Emphasis on Religious Democracy in the First Secondary School

The present research has been conducted with the aim of designing a suitable curriculum model with an emphasis on religious democracy in the first secondary school.

The research method that governs this research is the sequential-inductive method. For this purpose, in order to achieve the desired pattern, using semi-structured interviews, from the opinions of 18 experts in education and training and other specialties related to the subject. was used Sampling in this section was purposeful and continued until theoretical saturation was reached. Based on the information obtained from this section, the desirable components and elements of the official curriculum centered on religious democracy for the first secondary school were extracted. To validate the proposed model in the final part of the research, after designing the researcher-made questionnaire and evaluating its validity and reliability, the opinions of 40 related experts were collected about the internal validity of the model and analyzed and evaluated using the method of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. took

The results showed that the proposed model has good internal validity according to experts. Among the features of this model, we can refer to being native, paying attention to the characteristics of the audience, being exclusive, being scientific, comprehensiveness of the model, being new, and an active approach in education.

As far as possible, different and diverse methods are used in religious democracy training methods. Students learn in real life conditions. According to it, the methods of training religious democracy should be held in a participatory and interactive manner and these methods should not be implemented with coercion and imposition.