The effectiveness of teaching philosophy through comic strip media on the quality of mindfulness of fifth grade elementary students

Subject Areas : Infomartion Technology

fatemeh poursajadi ¹ , Soroush Sozangar ²

1 - Master, School Counseling, Tarbiat Dabir Shahid Rajaei University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Master of Educational Technology, Department of Human Sciences, Faculty, Arak University, Arak, Iran

Received: 2022-11-07 Accepted : 2023-09-26 Published : 2023-12-22

Keywords: Students, mindfulness, comic strip, Teaching philosophy.Facebook,

Abstract :

The aim of the authors research is to present an educational plan usingFacebook and comic strip media to improve the quality level of children's mental awareness.Method: The present research is of applied type and its statistical populationwas all fifth grade students of Dezful city, among whom 60 people were selected by two-stage cluster sampling method and replaced in two groups of 30 people, experimental and control. The tools used in this research wereresearcher-made comic strip and Grieco (2010) Mindfulness Questionnaire inChildren and Adolescents (CAMM), which was completed in two phases: pre-test and post-test. In order to implement the independent variable, in 8 sessions and during 4 weeks, 8 stories from classical Persian texts were selected for the experimental group and the same topics were performed for the control groupthrough the lecture method.The findings showed that the educational program had a significant impact on the growth of students' mindfulness, so that the effect size on mindfulness was 62.32% (P<0.05.(Conclusion: Fabak's approach using the comic strip media as a visual andattractive media for teaching content can lead to strengthening the level of children's mindfulness in real situations and deepening the learning experiences.

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