BIQUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC EDUCATION
Year:2017 | Volume:12 | Issue:24|Papers Count:15

This paper, using an interpretative approach and grounded theory methodology, rebuilds the semantic development of spirituality based on the statements of the supreme leader; the research questions are as follows: which theoretical model elucidates the leader's viewpoint from development spirituality? Which changes should occur in the Iranian society to form spiritual development? What are the interactive guidelines and their outcomes? The findings are multi sided; internal developmental determinants of human, assistance of religion as internal causative conditions, spiritual hostility approach of the superpowers in the recent years as external causative conditions, spirituality in the initial stages of Islamic development, and the spiritual  gap  in recent years and re-inclination of human toward spirituality as a background, the impact of Islamic revolution in the changing  the trend of de-spiritualizing in the world, the position and the role of spirituality in the stages of Islamic system, Islamic society, Islamic civilization, the Islamic state responsibility for the spirituality of public as  intervening conditions, spirituality in personal scope such as constant self-evaluation, keeping stability in the managers' realm and moral education of the society by government  as an interactive guideline, target-orientation life, the role of spirituality in the Islamic revolution victory, coincidence of real development and spirituality in the Islamic society as positive spiritual  development, political unrest as consequences of un-spirituality; the core aspect of this issue is spiritual development which covers the above mentioned aspects.

The main aim of this research is to elucidate the tradition of Imam Sadegh in order to present appropriate lifestyle since one of the requirements of the actualization of religious society is the formation of Islamic lifestyle through presentation and propagation of reasonable lifestyles based on Islamic teaching. Lifestyle represents the holistic orientation of values, norms, tendency, and the behavioral manifestation of the society. The methodology used in the research is qualitative content analysis; the findings reveal that Imam Sadeg has paid attention to all aspects of education (belief, worship, moral, social, political, biological, physical, economic, professional, aesthetic, artistic, scientific and technological side). Such comprehensive consideration can be used a good model. therefore, words and actions can be a good model in formation of public lifestyle. In accordance with the suggestion of Kaviani and his resort to Adler's prescriptive perspective on Islamic lifestyle as well as in accordance with the pivot of tree stem of lifestyle, the Imam's views such as attitude toward life, self, and others can be sued in the formation of  the lifestyle of the candidates.

The aim of this research is the comparative  investigation of family lifestyle from the perspective of Quran and Modernity; the main question is that  what are the distinctive points between these two. In doing so, using analytical-descriptive approach along with library tools and religious-scientific approach, the teachings of Quran and modernity scholars' perspective as well as the statistics of the two societies were addressed. The central achievement of this study is that there are seven differences between the two poles some of which are as follows: 1) Quranic lifestyle is based on God-centered freedom while in that of modernity it is human-centered. 2) family in Islamic lifestyle, contrary to modern lifestyle, has a great position. 3) the structure of the qur'anic family emphasizes religious and legal marriage, double-sex family, and single-husband family while in the modern approach, family does not enjoy a high stance and persons are free in the structure of family; that is, they prescribe sexual-intercourse, single-sex family, multi-husband family. Based on the above-mentioned differences, some other discrepancies, also, occur.

One of the new issues in the education system of the developed countries is the inclusion of economic education programs along with basic and necessary skills, which shows the importance of the issue. The aim of this research is elucidation of economic education parameters based on Islamic teachings. The methodology used in this study is content analysis using deductive-inductive approach. The population of the study is Quran verses, extracted through targeted sampling, related to the issue. The research-made questionnaire used in this study was evaluated and corrected by experts.The findings of the study reveal that in the elucidation of the parameters the basic three parameters are production, distribution, and consumption. In the production parameter, the three aspects are production factors, dynamic businesses, and productivity factors with 19 sub-branches; In the distribution parameter, the three aspects are the aim of distribution, financial tool of distribution, and pathology of wealth distribution with 16 sub-branches; in the consumption parameter the two aspects are needs and motivations of creating consumption with 13 sub-branches; these are all extracted and classified.

Quran is a book which has used direct educational methods for the education of prophets and people and has taught prophets and others some methods of education; the aim of this research is the investigation of the issue that whether human trainers can use the heavenly methods for education of the people or they are God-specific and cannot be used in the education of people. The methodology used in this study is interpretive analytic in the verses of Quran which are classified into eight groups: the guiding and educational aim of Quran, rationality and generality of the language of Quran, recommendation to thinking in qur'anic verses, order of Quran in resorting to hablolah, Caliph being of human for God, model of the prophet for the people, and the validity of using prophet's methods and the like.

Nowadays, inclination toward spirituality and morality of the students and hence the citizenly behavior is one of the great concerns of education experts. importantly, the aim of this study is the comparison of the relationship between belief development and self-concept and citizenly behavior in the school students. The methodology of the research is a correlational-descriptive survey. The population (N=15824) of the study was all the female students in Ardabil Province, district 1. The sample consisted of 380 students, 190 males and 190 females who answered SCQ as well as citizenship questionnaire. Validity and reliability of the questionnaires were already proved in several studies. Data analysis was done through multiple variance analysis, and Pearson correlation. The findings revealed that there is meaningful relationship between self-concept and citizenly behavior and belief development. On the other hand, these variables showed meaningful difference in genders. Reinforcement of the belief development of the students can fortify self-concept and appropriate citizenly behavior of the students.

The main aim of this research is to analyze the content of the child development journals in religious education. The methodology used in the study is descriptive- content analysis. The population of the study was all the texts and pictures of these journal in the year 1392-1393. The two (frequency) parameters that were the focus of investigation were intimacy with the beneficent Allah and recognition of the prophet and Imams; the sub-parameters of the intimacy with Allah were dedication to heavenly order, recognition of NEMAT and correct use of them; the second sub-parameters were recognition of the prophets and Imams, dedication to the orders and going to pilgrim. All the texts and pictures were selected for analysis. At p=0.05 level the chi square showed asymmetry in the journals; moreover, in most journals, the sub-parameters of recognition of the prophets and Imams the least attention has been given to the issue. At the end some suggestions are provided.

The main aim of this article is the content analysis of the articles published in the last 20 issues of the journal. The design of the study is applied research utilizing content analysis. The findings revealed that in each of the issues7.55 articles have been pubished; 80.8% of the articles were library research; 77.3% of the articles were written by male writers; more than 58% of the authors were PhDs; 41.7% of the articles were written by a single author; among the university writers, Isfahan university submitted 40 articles, research institute for Hawzah and university 30 articles, university of Tehran 23 articles, respectively. The issues covered in the article were basically concerned with aspects of education in Islam (22%).