Curriculum Design for Teaching Philosophy to Iranian Children in the First Grade of Primary School

Document Type : Research Paper

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One of the goals of education is training people with  awareness and somehow thinking  which is based on  philosophical reasoning ,   making them deal with the world around them with a comprehensive and  a deep thought, ability to study various aspects of  the life’s problems  and  having high flexibility  toward them.
Today one  of the  notified  curriculums for  achieving  those above goals is introduced as  “teaching philosophy  for children”  .
This study is going to  design  curriculum for  teaching philosophy to Iranian children in the first grade of primary school  with  secondary following objectives such as  setting goals; determining outlines of curriculum contents; specifying and identifying teaching –learning strategies and crediting curricula.
Developmental methodology that followed by this research, is done  by  analytical-descriptive  method combined with survey method.
In order to validate  the designed curriculum, a questionnaire was formulated and sent to 20 experts in this  field .
Research findings indicated that most experts  have evaluated proposed goals, content outlines,  and teaching- learning strategies with  relatively desired accredit .

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