Status of Islamic education courses (method, teacher-student, content)

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Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Islamic Revolution Studies, Institute of Islamic Culture and Education

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Regarding the general courses offered in the country's universities, there have been many opposing and agreeing points of view regarding the duties, goals, role and place of general courses next to specialized courses in universities, and many opinions have been raised regarding its quantitative and qualitative aspects. . In any case, in universities, while emphasizing education and specialized courses, education and general courses also created and maintained their function and role in university classes up to the bachelor's degree and became a fundamental and inseparable part of the higher education curriculum. Known. In this research, to assess the status of education courses, based on various existing research formats, including scientific articles (94 cases), theses and dissertations (15 cases), books (12 cases), research projects (19 cases). Specialized cases, interviews and notes (34 cases) analysis and findings have been presented. The views of professors, students' views, the content of Islamic education courses, the research was conducted with a qualitative method and a meta-composite technique with library collection tools. The question of this research is, what is the state of education courses in the aforementioned four dimensions in terms of quality in the eyes of professors and experts, and what solutions have been proposed to improve it? The most important findings are; More emphasis on research literature in the form of articles (about 54 percent), then notes, interviews and meetings (about 21 percent) and less attention to research in this category in the form of books (about 7 percent), treatises (about 8.5 percent) ) and plans (9.5 percent). This means that the need to plan for the preparation of text and analysis content regarding education courses is felt more in important formats such as books and plans.

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