فصلنامه پژوهش در برنامه ریزی درسی
پیاپی 33 (تابستان 1391)

Education has been a focus of attention of various religions and schools of thought for centuries. There are different dimensions to education. A leading dimension is social education. For social education, too, the best period is childhood since it is a very good time and opportunity for every type of social learning. The socialization trend is faster in childhood. As a self-contained religion, Islam is the divine way of living to people. Its teachings can be used as a valuable and efficient source of extracting and explaining educational methods. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to develop child social education methods based on the Quran and Nahjulbalaghah. Subsequent to explorations and scrutiny of the existing sources accomplished both descriptively and analytically, a total of six methods for child education emerged. Further, recommendations commensurate with each method were made to teachers and parents to help use the findings. The methods explored were exemplar, preventive, admonitory, incentive, punitive and educative.

This research aimed to study religious education curriculum goals based on considered intellectual knowledge in verses of the Holy Quran using Tafsire Almizan. Statistical population was total verses of the Holy Quran. After determining related verses related to intellectual knowledge and investigating each of the extracted verses in Tafsire Almizan through qualitative content analysis, the aims of religious education curriculum was extracted as priori categorization system. According to findings of this research, the aims of religious education curriculum regarding considered intellectual knowledge in verses of the Holy Quran based on Tafsire Almizan respectively were: Theology and monotheism, introduction and verification of prophecy, introduction of the Quran and its teachings, introduction of owners of wisdom and their characteristics, remembrance of resurrection, day of judgment and hereafter life, lessons, training of virtuous people, divine commands teaching, encouraging critical thinking and discouraging incorrect thinking, comparing and matching of values (purity and impurity, the faithful and the heathen and…)

It is essential for National identity (NI) to be given utmost importance in order to deepen and internalize it in educational systems.Thus,this research investigated the components of Iranian NI and its implications for Iranian educational system. In addition, a review on researches is presented and studied. This was a meta-analytical research and the data were collected through library method. 43 books and 46 dissertations and theses were analyzed.Thirty eight components were identified in theses and dissertations. 79.65% of the components were repeated only once or twice. In the related books, 48 components were named for NI. 70.83% of the components were repeated only once.The differences on the components of NI showed there was not an agreement on the components of Iranian NI. Also, the review of components of Iranian NI in the educational objectives showed there is a lack of sufficient collectivity and integrity.These results show insufficient attention paid to components of Iranian NI in educational objectives.The objectives need to be revised.In addition, the results of a survey on the research about NI in school's textbooks, showed the components were selected based on personal taste rather than scientifically reliable criteria. The results show a meta-disciplinary and comprehensive approach is needed to determine the components of NI.

Progressive citizenship education approach is one of the approaches that emphasize on the preperation of oppartunities to achieve potentials for active participation in social life. The main purpose of this research was to study progressive citizenship education approach in social studies textbooks in middle school. In this research, the library and documents were used to study and clarify the progressive citizenship education approach. Also content analysis was used to analyze social studies curriculum in middle school. Statistical samples of content analysis are social studies textbooks taught in middle school.Data collection instruments included lists of content analysis of textbooks. The data were collected by preparing content lists following a thourpugh investigation of theoretical principles and related legal issues. The validity was confirmed by 10 experts. The analysis unit was the sentences of textbooks. Content analysis of the textbooks showed different levels of attention to citizenship rights in different grades in middle school: 20.04% in social studies in the first grade; 22% in the second grade and 20.14% in the third grade

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the readability of textbooks for grades four and five in primary schools _Hedyehaye Asemani_ in Iran to see how appropriate they are for the intended grades. The study used a content analysis approach using the indicators defined by Gunning. The textbook for grade four includes 23 lessons in 80 pages whereas the textbook for Grade Five includes 23 lessons in 103 pages. Our analysis shows that the readability of the books vary significantly in different parts and are well above the levels of the students in both grades. The analyses indicate the books are not at appropriate readability levels for the grades.

Today internationalization of higher education has been accompanied with issues such as rapid changes, rebuilding of programs, elimination of geographical borders, and access to the new information and technology. The aim of this article is to study and compare the efforts made by curriculum planners in different universities around the world for the internationalization of the higher education. This comparative – analytical study investigates different approaches for the internationalization of curriculum of the higher education (including strategies, programs, activities and methods of teaching and learning) in countries like the United States of America, Canada, Australia, and Japan. Findings include strategies, programs, activities for internationalization of higher education curriculum learning and teaching methods in each country. Comparison of four strategies of the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan showed that internationalizing the curriculum and learning strategies by embedding international content into their existing curricula is their most important strategy and teacher and student exchange programs receive less attention. Today, the internationalization of local and national curricula is of great importance.

This quasi-experimental study with pretest – posttest and two control groups investigated the impact of cooperative learning on group tendency and academic achievement of high school students in Mashhad, Iran.The study population was high school first-grade female students of Mashhad in academic year 2010-2011. The sample size was 77, in which 24 were in the experimental group, 26 in control group 1 and 27 in control group 2. In the experimental group cooperative teaching method was used and in control groups the traditional teaching method. The tools were Evans and Jarvis’ group tendency questionnaire (1986) and researcher-made academic achievement tests.All the tests were consistent in terms of validity and reliability coefficient (0.86). To analyse data, both descriptive and inferential statistics (MANCOVA) were used.MANCOVA test showed significant differences among the tendencies of the three groups (P=0.001). Benfroni’s post hoc test results showed that the experimental group was affected more by cooperative teaching method compared with the other two groups (control group 1 with (P= 0.004) and control group 2 with (P=0.005)). But there wasn’t any significant diffenrence among the three groups considering academic achievement (P=0.646). Although this difference is not statistically significant, comparison of the averages of academic achievement in three groups showed better performance of experimental group. Teachers should learn active teaching methods and apply them in their classes. Also they should take measures to change students’ attitudes toward group work.

This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted in 2010 to identify success factors in e-learning programs. Statistical population consisted of 384 managers, professors, experts, practitioners of e- learning in Tehran from whom 192 samples were randomly selected through using Morgan-Krjsy table. A researcher-made questionnaire was applied for data collection. The validity was confirmed by experts. The reliability of the questionnaire was calculated 0.87 through Cronboch’s alpha by using SPSS. Descriptive and inferential statistics and chi square (chi2 test and Friedman tests) were performed for data analysis. The results showed that program content, web access, learners involvement and participation, security and support of web site, the institute’s commitment, interactive learning environment, instructors skills, and design and presentation were the highest frequent success factors in e-learning programs

This descriptive and analytical research aimed to analyze the content of 4th and 5th grades elementary science books based on Merrill instructional objectives. To do so, the 4th and 5th grades elementary textbooks of natural sciences as well as the teacher’s manuals were analyzed; the statistical sample and the statistical population_ science textbooks of 4th and 5th grades_ were the same. The most important conclusions of analysis are as follow: a) Considering problem solving and procedure aspects of functional sciences in books, some attention is given to functional sciences. b) Access to innovation and discovery procedure should be emphasized more than other functions for the creation of problem solving capacity in students. c) There are some problems regarding design, for the correction of which some suggestions have been proposed to the authors of natural science books at the end of the survey.

The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between learning styles of female high school students and their academic achievement. The target population was female high school students of educational district No.5 of Esfahan including 3483 students. Trough multi- stage random sampling method, 350 individuals were selected as the research sample. Research method was descriptive – survey method and data collecting was a questionnaire named Felder and Solomon Learning Style Index (FLSI). Using test-retest method, the reliability of questionnaire was calculated and obtained coefficients were: 0.86 for sensory-intuition domain,0.84 for active-reflective domain,0.86 for visual-verbal domain,0.82 for sequential-global domain. Felder and Solomon have verified validity of the questionnaire. Collected data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regressions. Results showed that in human science courses, intuitive learning style, and in empirical science courses, global learning style correlated to academic achievement of students. Other styles showed no significant correlation with academic achievement. Multi regression analysis revealed that intuitive learning style of students of human science courses and global learning style of students of empirical science courses can predict academic achievement.