The purpose of presnt study was to investigate how to answer to children’ questions about God. The main research question therefore was how we answer to children’s questions about God in a way that the answers be easily and fully comprehended and simultaneously do not cause any misunderstanding. For doing so, descriptive and inferential research methods were used. The findings of the study revealed two foundations as follows: children conceptions of God are totally influenced by their surrounding culture and the conception of God is abstract formed based on abstraction of the features of every day conceptions. This research also found that main principles in responding to children's questions about God are: providing active and dynamic social environment, attention and perception, scaffolding, and creating basic concepts. The result showed the main ways of responding to children’s questions are as: parable, simple intellectual reasoning, and step by step question-answer, storytelling, and group discussion methods.
یتطرق البحث إلى دراسة کیفیة الرد على أسئلة الأطفال حول الرب فی المرحلة الإبتدائیة. والسؤال الرئیس للبحث هو: کیف یمکن الإجابة على أسئلة الأطفال حول الرب فی المرحلة الإبتدائیة؛ بحیث یمکّن لهم فهمه، ولا یتسبب لهم فی نفس الوقت الفهم الخاطئ. وفی هذا المجال تم استخدام منهجی البحث الوصفی التحلیلی و التحلیلی الاستنباطی.
فمن خلال البحث تم الحصول على قاعدتین: أولهما أن تصور الأطفال من الرب یتأتر بالثقافة، والأخر أن مفهوم الرب انتزاعیاً وتکوینه یکون بتجرید میزات المفاهیم الیومیة. کما اتضح لنا من البحث: أن المبادئ الرئیسة فی الإجابة تتجسد فی البیئة الإجتماعیة الناشطة والحیة، والإدراک والاهتمام، والدعم القوی، وإنشاء المفاهیم الأساسیة. وأسالیب الإجابة تتمثل فی: أسلوب التمثیل والبراهین العقلیة البسیطة، وأسلوب السؤال والجواب المتدرج ، وأسلوب روایة القصص وأسلوب المناقشة الجماعیة.
Davoodi,M. , Shabani,Z. and Shafiei,R. (2016). Foundations, Principles, and Methods of Answering to Children's Questions About God. Islamic Perspective on Educational Science, 4(6), 109-132. doi: 10.30497/edus.2016.58584
MLA
Davoodi,M. , , Shabani,Z. , and Shafiei,R. . "Foundations, Principles, and Methods of Answering to Children's Questions About God", Islamic Perspective on Educational Science, 4, 6, 2016, 109-132. doi: 10.30497/edus.2016.58584
HARVARD
Davoodi M., Shabani Z., Shafiei R. (2016). 'Foundations, Principles, and Methods of Answering to Children's Questions About God', Islamic Perspective on Educational Science, 4(6), pp. 109-132. doi: 10.30497/edus.2016.58584
CHICAGO
M. Davoodi, Z. Shabani and R. Shafiei, "Foundations, Principles, and Methods of Answering to Children's Questions About God," Islamic Perspective on Educational Science, 4 6 (2016): 109-132, doi: 10.30497/edus.2016.58584
VANCOUVER
Davoodi M., Shabani Z., Shafiei R. Foundations, Principles, and Methods of Answering to Children's Questions About God. Islamic Perspective on Educational Science, 2016; 4(6): 109-132. doi: 10.30497/edus.2016.58584
