Document Type : REVIEW PAPER

Authors

• Hadi Jafarian (Iran) ¹
• Hesam al-Din Moayedian (Iran) ²

¹ PhD Student in Department of Islamic Jurisprudence and Fundamentals, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

² Student Level 3, Qom Seminary, Qom, Iran

Abstract

The entry of technology into the field of information and communication has transformed all aspects of human life to the extent that the transfer of educational data is accepted electronically and through a virtual environment by adopting a modern approach and removing many common limitations in physical education. Thus, the present study analyzed the effect of virtual education on the expression of religious concepts for children and evaluated its effect on the religious beliefs of the aforementioned group. Data collection tool was a four-level questionnaire taken from the Glock and Stark questionnaire of religious beliefs, which was distributed among 82 parents of children aged 7-12 years working in the police force of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province. The implementation of this research was by adopting a descriptive-evaluation method, semi-experimental and pre-test-post-test, and inferential statistics including correlated t-test were used to analyze the data. The results show that the components of religious attitudes and beliefs, religious information, religious practices and experiences by children have improved significantly compared to before the virtual education; But this educational method has not had any effect on performing duties and abandoning religious taboos.

Keywords

• Training
• Religious Beliefs
• Children
• Gender Education
• Family-Oriented Education
• Virtual Training

Main Subjects

• Religion and Cyberspace