JOURNAL OF APPLIED ISSUES IN ISLAMIC EDUCATION
Year:2020 | Volume:5 | Issue:1 (14)|Papers Count:6

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of teaching planning based on spirituality and Islamic teachings on anxiety and academic resiliency of senior high school male students. This study was a semiexperimental one with pre-test and post-test as well as control group. The statistical population of this study consisted of all senior high school male students in Tabriz in academic year 2019-2020. Multistage cluster sampling was used to select the sample. For this purpose, 40 students were selected after the screening and were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Then, 10 training sessions were conducted for the experimental group, and the control group did not receive any training. Pre-test and post-test were conducted using exam anxiety and academic resiliency questionnaires. The data were then analyzed using covariance analysis. The results of data analysis showed that teaching spirituality-based curriculum and the Islamic teachings had an effect on reducing academic anxiety and increasing students, academic resilience.

The purpose of this study was to determine the mediating effect of school students’ spiritual well-being in the relationship of the spiritual intelligence of parents and teachers with the students’ happiness. The research was of descriptive-correlational design and its statistical population included all school students (male and female) in the fifth and sixth grade of elementary school in Shiraz city in the school year 2017-2018. The research sample was selected through systematic random sampling. The teachers and parents responded to King’ s Spiritual Intelligence Self Report Inventory (2008) and the student responded to Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire by Paloutzian and Ellison (1991) and Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (2002). The calculations demonstrated the reliability (Cronbach’ s alpha) of the tools used. The research hypotheses were analyzed using SPSS 23 and AMOS22 software. The results showed that the effect of spiritual intelligence of teachers and parents on students’ spiritual well-being was significant. Also, the effect of spiritual intelligence of teachers and parents on students’ happiness was significant. The results showed that students’ spiritual well-being had a positive and significant effect on their happiness. The results of mediation analysis showed that the indirect effect of teacher’ s spiritual intelligence on student happiness was significant. Moreover, the results indicated that the indirect effect of parent’ s spiritual intelligence on student happiness was also significant. Finally, the findings indicated the effect of spirituality effective people such as teachers and parents on students’ spiritual well-being as well as their happiness and confirmed the need to pay attention to spirituality in life.

The purpose of this study was to design and fit a model of children’ s religious education strategies in families. The research method is mixed (compound) with qualitative-quantitative design. The research population consisted of all parents of preschool students in Urmia city, 14 of whom were selected purposefully and through theoretical data saturation rule. Data collection tool in the qualitative section was semi-structured interviews and in the quantitative part was a questionnaire. After parental consent, the interviews were anonymously recorded and transcribed. In the second part, 222 parents were selected by simple random sampling and answered the questionnaires. To analyze the data in the qualitative analysis, the four-step method by Powell and Renner (2003) and in the quantitative part the structural equation model were used. The software used in the qualitative section was MAXQDA10 and in the quantitative analysis, SPSS16 and AMOS21 software were used. According to the results of the qualitative research, parents use four major strategies of «modeling” , «Islamic lifestyle” , «educational media» and «religious environments and occasions» to teach their children religion. The findings of the structural equation model showed that the four strategies of the conceptual model of research fitted and influenced the variations of parents’ methods for teaching religion to their children; besides, the ‘ modeling’ and ‘ lifestyle’ parameters were in the most influencial ones. Considering the findings of this sytudy, it is suggested that parents use the religious education strategies presented in this study to preschool children.

This main purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which the Islamic norms are parcticed by male students in sinor high school from the teachers’ and school principals’ viewpoints. Its other purpose is to provide some practical solutions so that it can encourage students to practice and observe the Islamic norms. Considering the nature of the subject and the objectives of the study, the research method is a combination of exploratory-type. Thus, for the qualitative stage, a sample of 16 experts and 15 students were selected for the interview by using the targeted sampling method. The statistical population of this study in the quantitative phase included all teachers, principals and deputies of the senior high schools in Tehran in the academic year 2015-2016. Based on the Kerjesi and Morgan table, 270 subjects were selected from among teachers, principals and deputies of senior high schools by random cluster sampling method. The necessary data collection tool of the qualitative phase was a semi-structured interview in two levels (of experts and students) and the tool of the quantitative stage was the scale for gradation of the teachers, principals and deputies. In the quantitative phase, the data were analyzed using the descriptive and inferential statistics (single-sample t-test); and in the qualitative section, the data were analyzed using open, central and selective coding. The results showed that from the viewpoint of teachers and school principals and deputies, male students of senior high schools, observe above average the Islamic norms in dimensions of dress and appearance, respect for religious rites, etiquette and respect for principals, teachers and others school staff, respect for ethics and good behavior with other students, observing the hygiene and cleanliness of the school space, and not neglecting their duties. The findings also showed that from the viewpoint of teachers, school principals and deputies, respecting students by the teachers, principals and school staff as a pattern of behavior, promoting respect for the teacher in the family and local and national media, increasing students’ awareness about Islamic ethics through continuous education of family and school, and informing students about their duties by family and school are among the most important practical solutions to encourage students to practice and observe Islamic norms.

Realization of ‘ School in 2025 Outlook’ requires human resource management to build commitment, loyalty, trust and productivity. Therefore, the present study, in the year 2017-2018, explores the organizational support requirements of the school outlined in the Fundamental Reform Document of Education using a concurrent nesting approach. First, by analyzing upper hand education documents and semi-structured interviews with 13 key informants and educational system experts, the perceived organizational support requirements perceived in HRM subsystems were extracted. For in-depth study of the phenomena and testing the findings of the qualitative method, Mofid educational complex was selected as an example working in accordance with of the Outlook goals, and through Eisenberg standard questionnaire (1986) the perceived organizational support results were investigated among 118 employees and teachers. According to the research findings obtained in 4 human resource management subsystems (provision and adjustment, improvement, maintenance and application), the school educational leadership, when based on goodwill, creates a moral climate at school and a moral commitment in staff; and this provides perceived organizational support framework. Although justice is important and needs to be considered in mechanisms, especially financial ones (in provision, allocation and consumption), . but human dignity is a strategy for establishing a relationship of goodness and justice between leadership and the individual. Also, designing a compensation system in a way that can satisfy all members with a full-scale and comprehensive approach requires diversity and commitment.

This study was conducted with the aim of developing a political educationcurriculum model based on the social-political education domain of Fundamental Reform Document of Education for Iranian junior high school students, using a quantitive research method To select the sample based on a targeted sampling method and principle of reaching saturation in qualitative research, 14 specialists, 9 members of the textbook writing group and 6 heads of the teachers› groups were selected. The data collection tool was semi-structured interview. For data analysis, qualitative analysis methods such as categories content analysis and theme analysis were used. The results showed that the philosophical bases of the curriculum model are of political education of Islamic realism, the ideal theory of curriculum, the evolutionist theory, the conceptual structure of the political curriculum including justice, self esteem, law enforcement, selection, responsibility, identifying the duties of political institutions, participation, patriotism; and that the curriculum organization structure is integrative (unity within the learner) and the syntactic structure of the political curriculum is interpretative and critical. In response to these findings, the quality of the nine elements of the political curriculum was investigated and confirmed by the authorities; and finally the results showed that social studies, Persian language, writing skills, and culture and art have the greatest potential for addressing the political curriculum in junior high school. As a result, it can be said that the comprehensiveness and attention to the effective elements of the political curriculum is one of the most important features of the political curriculum model which can help to improve the level of knowledge, attitude and political insight of junior high school students.