Analysis of the Content of Elementary School Textbooks of the Qur'an and Heavenly Messages Based on the Component of Spiritual Health

Subject Areas : curriculum

Amir Azimi Galoogahi ¹ , Masoumeh Bagherpour ²

1 - MA Candidate of Educational Research, Bandargaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandargaz, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Bandargaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandargaz, Iran. (corresponding author)

Received: 2023-12-30 Accepted : 2023-12-30 Published : 2023-09-23

Keywords: spiritual health, Quran textbook, Heavenly messages,

Abstract :

The present study was carried out with the aim of analyzing the content of the textbooks of the Qur'an and the heavenly messages of elementary school based on the components of spiritual health. The study was applied in terms of purpose and employed a descriptive method for content analysis. The statistical population of the research includes the textbooks of the Qur'an and the heavenly messages of the primary school in 2023. Due to the nature of the research and the limitation of the statistical population, sampling was not done. The research tool was a content analysis checklist made by the researcher, the validity of which was approved of by experts, and its reliability was calculated by William Scott's method at 91%. The data analysis method was based on Shannon's entropy with pages as unit of analysis (texts, questions, exercises and pictures) yielding a total of 1681 cases. The findings showed that out of the total frequency of spiritual health components in the textbook (n= 1059), the components of recitation and intimacy with the Quran have the highest frequency with 34% and truthfulness has a very low frequency of 1%. In the book of heavenly messages (n= 622), the components of prayer with 36% have the most frequency, truthfulness and piety and trust with 2% have a very low frequency, which shows the inappropriate distribution and dispersion of these components in the textbooks of gifts. It is heavenly.