The effect of spiritual Masnavi stories on the development of critical thinking skills of high school students

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

Kobra Zarei Sefiddari ¹ , Vahideh Alipour ² , sohila hossenpour ³

1 - Master of Educational Planning. Karaj unit. Islamic Azad University. Karaj. Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences. Payam Noor University. Tehran.Iran.
3 - Responsible author and assistant professor of educational sciences. Sanandaj unit. Islamic Azad University. Sanandaj.Iran.

Received: 2017-08-12 Accepted : 2021-09-25 Published : 2021-08-23

Keywords: story, Students, critical thinking, Masnavi Manavi,

Abstract :

school students in District 3 of Karaj in the academic year of 1996-97. To conduct the research in the same conditions, both pretest groups were performed using the Watson-Glaser (1994) Critical Thinking Questionnaire, whose validity was confirmed by content validity by experts and reliability was calculated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.87. The training package (Masnavi Manavi stories) was presented to the experimental group in 16 sessions of 90 minutes in 8 weeks, while during this period the control group did not receive any intervention. After the training sessions on the experimental group, both groups underwent post-test under the same conditions. Univariate and multivariate analysis of covariance were used to analyze the data using SPSS25 software. After adjusting the pre-test scores, the difference between the experimental and control groups in the critical thinking variable was significant at the alpha level of 0.01; The adjusted mean of the experimental group (33.95) was higher than the adjusted mean of the control group (25.07). The results showed that teaching Masnavi spiritual stories in the development of critical thinking and its components (inference (sig = 0.83), identification of assumptions (sig = 0.47), inference (sig = 0.64), interpretation (sig = 0.71) and evaluation (sig = 0.28) ) Was effective.

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