Indicators and components of the curriculum of religious education in the university: a synthesis of the research background based on Roberts' approach

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

mahmood zarejafarizavareh ¹ , Hossain Momenimahmouei ² , Mehdi Zeirak ³ , Ahmad Akbari ⁴ , toutaj falah mehne ⁵

1 - Department of Educational Sciences, Torbat Heydariyeh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Torbat Heydariyeh, Iran.
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Torbet Heydarieh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Torbet Heydarieh, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Torbat Jam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Torbat Jam, Iran
4 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
5 - Department of Educational Sciences, Torbat Heydarieh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Torbat Heydarieh, Iran

Received: 2022-05-22 Accepted : 2023-08-09 Published : 2023-08-09

Keywords: research synthesis, curriculum model, Religious education,

Abstract :

Religious education forms an important part of students' curricula, besides its role in establishing the religious identity of learners, this important role leads to the realization of other educational goals in the higher education system. Knowing the components and indicators of the religious education curriculum provides the basis for designing a comprehensive model in the field of religious education. Therefore, the aim of the current research is to identify the dimensions and components of the religious education curriculum model. The approach of the current research is qualitative and its method is synthesis research. The research community is all the articles (124 articles) that have been presented in specialized and scientific databases since 2009 and 2015 so far about the curriculum model of religious education. The sample of the research is 25 articles, which were selected based on thematic monitoring, theoretical saturation of data and purposefully. The research data were collected from the qualitative analysis of the studied documents. In order to analyze the data, content analysis was used in the method of categorization based on Roberts' synthesis research model. In order to check the validity of the findings, the recoding of the findings was used based on Scott's method (2012) and the agreement coefficient between the evaluators was calculated as 81%. The components and indicators of the religious education curriculum model in 4 dimensions, 13 axes and 53 categories including knowledge components (including indicators such as knowledge of religious concepts, cultural-belief knowledge and media literacy), Structural components (including components such as paying attention to the culture of religious learning, creating religious communities and structural-oriented ethics), pedagogical components (including components such as cooperative education, use of research approaches, evaluation and analytical and argument-oriented methods) and programmatic-process components (includes axes such as the application of knowledge management in the cycle of religious education of students and university support and attention to social values)

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