نشریه پژوهش در آموزش معارف و تربیت اسلامی
سال یکم شماره 4 (پاییز 1400)

The purpose of the present study is to identify the existing factors and opportunities in terms of home and school to reinforce religious education of elementary students, by having interviews with the experts of religious education (in fields of educational sciences, psychology, and Islamic sciences among successful principals and teachers). The main research question is what are the existing factors and opportunities in terms of home and school that can reinforce religious education of elementary students from the perspective of religious education experts? The current study is qualitative research and uses semi-open interviews and a purposive sampling method to collect data. There were about 25 interviewees and directed content analysis was used for data assessment. After evaluating the interviews and extracting the categories, and also continual comparison between data, some categories that had overlap were merged and presented under a more general title.The most major factors and opportunities identified in this study involve activities, programs, and measures related to the following 5 categories: Communication between school staff and parents, building trust between home and school, dividing responsibilities between school and family, extracurricular and free time activities, empowerment of the school staff, families, and the association of parents and teachers.

The purpose of the present research is to study the approach of Imam ‘Ali (AS) and Āl-e Bouyeh government (Baghdad Branch) to the Christians. The method of study is descriptive-analytical and the results showed that although the duration of Imam ‘Ali’s government was so short, it had abundant achievements and outcomings and it was derived from the Qur’an and Sirah of the Holy Prophet of Islam (PBUH). Following the governmental style of Imam ‘Ali (AS), Āl-e Bouyeh attempted to observe cautious aspects in their encounter with the Christians and treated them according to the Islamic instructions such as equality and brotherhood. Although their measures were not as complete as the ones in Imam ‘Ali (AS)’s government, yet it can be concluded that the measures of Imam ‘Ali (AS) have been referenced as a suitable role model for the Muslims in that period. During the governments of ‘Alavi and Āl-e Bouyeh, common people and the Christians were treated appropriately and they had relative welfare. The Christians’ condition in the Shi’ite Bouyeh society was by far better than their condition in other places. Bouyeh governors were observing the utmost accuracy and attempt so that religious minorities especially the Christians in their territory had welfare. Adoption of this policy caused the presence, cooperation, and employment of some Christians in the Bouyeh government and it led to Islamic Renaissance. The approach of many Bouyeh officials and governors to the Christians was similar to the method of the ‘Allavis.

The purpose of the present study is educational analysis of the Shi'ite jurisprudential criteria in terms of the essence of dowry and its features in the curriculum books of high schools. In this regard and using a descriptive-analytical method, the issue of teaching marriage in the curriculum books, teaching the concept and essence of dowry, and some theories like "dowry being an exchange in the marriage contract", "dowry being a guarantee for the sustenance of marriage", "dowry as a contract condition", "dowry being a compensation in the marriage contract", and the theory of Moktār: dowry, the divine and obligatory gift having financial value were discussed. The results showed that contrary to the disagreed ideas, dowry is a gratuitous gift that is required to be paid by the man to the woman upon the command of God and it has various features such as financial value, legitimate rational benefit, and the potential of being owned, submitted, obvious, present, and determined.

The purpose of the present study is to survey the main intention and objective of writing religious texts during the Safavid dynasty that can be applied as an educational method to understand other religious texts in historical eras. In this regard, Skinner’s intentionalist Hermeneutics was used to recognize different aspects of religious texts in the Safavid dynasty. In this research, the ideological background for writing religious texts was investigated, and furthermore, the process of changing the conventional norms was analyzed using those texts written along with the abovementioned change. The results of the study show that hermeneutics can be used to understand the intention behind writing religious texts in the Safavid dynasty. Writing the above texts was in line with changing conventional norms at that time and it was consistent with the process of compiling, stabilizing, and developing new norms, and in some cases, it has also been supported by power structure. On the one hand, religious texts were written with the intention of weakening previous norms like Sufism, other religions such as Christianity, and absolute monarchy derived from ancient ideologies. On the other hand, in addition to mentioning the negative points of the previous norms, they were being expanded in line with fostering and highlighting the positive points of the new norms.

The purpose of the present study is to review foundations and principles of political education in the ideology of Āyatollāh Shahid Beheshti. The method of study is descriptive analysis and the results showed that although in the educational strategy of Āyatollāh Shahid Beheshti, education of human society is considered an arduous category, people are always in need of education to acquire the components of political education and deal with their ruling political system appropriately. In this regard, the outstanding and genuine position belongs to fundamental models, not the formal ones. In other words, Shahid Beheshti believes that human education gets elaboration and improvement by the gradual process of education so the formal perceptions of education are unable to train Islamic pupils. Accepting such a model of political education relies on special foundations and principles that their patterns can be achieved in social-political theories of Shahid Beheshti. In the structure of political education proposed by him, a human is a being who has right and duty and his ultimate goal is to achieve faithful life in this world and prosperity in the other world. In this approach, regarding the inward and outward aspects of a human, Islamic political education, contrary to the western models, affects 3 fields of insight, attitude, and political skills of the citizens in Islamic society.

The purpose of the present study is methodology of narrating the history of prophets and monarchs in the Qur'an. God has applied many conceptual and formal methods to state His aims and intentions in the Qur'an. The present research has focused on the conceptual methods and in this regard, by considering them in the Qur'an, 9 methods derived from other branches of knowledge were reviewed using descriptive analysis of the verses of the Noble Qur'an. The results of the study indicate that the conceptual methods applied in the Qur'an for the narration of the history of the ancestors, especially prophets and monarchs, is different from other branches of science, especially history. The origin of this difference in methods can be traced back to the contradictions between the aims and intentions of the Qur'an and other books. Two main objectives of the Qur'an from the narration of history is for the sake of edification and guidance whereas the major purpose of other historians is the entertainment and satisfaction of monarchs. In this regard, God in line with His aims in the Qur'an, has applied at least 3 basic methods including centralization of prophets and choosing some significant sections of their divine evidences in narrating history, stating prophets' approach to the audience, and dealing with prophets' services not the measures of monarchs.