Islamic Education Curriculum in The Elementary School Based on the Components Related to The Concept of God

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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran.

2 MSc. Student of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

This research was carried out with the purpose of evaluating the curriculum of the Islamic education of the elementary school based on the components of God's concept. The research approach was mixed and its strategy was sequential exploration. The corpus included all the books of Heaven's Gifts (in Persian called Hedyehaye Aseman) of the elementary period that published in 2022. Due to the nature and objectives of the research, the sample was equal to the corpus and the entire corpus had been studied. In the first part of the research, the textbooks were analyzed as study documents through coding and categorization and thematic formation. In the second step, first, the frequency of the categories identified in the previous step was determined, and then to determine the importance coefficient of these categories, the quantitative data were analyzed with Shannon's entropy method. The findings showed that the components related to the concept of God in the textbooks of the Islamic education are kind, creator, supreme, capable, all-knowing, sufficient, just, unique, forgiver, acceptor of repentance, protector, commanding, manager and conductor. Also, the data analysis showed that the component "kind" with a coefficient of importance of 0.095 has the highest amount of attention, and the components of "protector" with a coefficient of importance of 0.071 and "Acceptor of repentance" with a coefficient of "0" have the least attention.

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Journal of Curriculum Studies
Volume 19, Issue 72
April 2024
Pages 91-120

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  • Receive Date: 28 March 2023
  • Revise Date: 23 August 2023
  • Accept Date: 30 August 2023

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