Aliakbar Kabiri; mahdi vahedi
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Research purpose:The current study made an attempt to examine the effectiveness technology-enhanced program of philosophy for children on happiness and rumination thoughts of Orphaned and abused girl children. Methods: The design of this research was a quasi-experimental pre-test-post-test with an experimental ...
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Research purpose:The current study made an attempt to examine the effectiveness technology-enhanced program of philosophy for children on happiness and rumination thoughts of Orphaned and abused girl children. Methods: The design of this research was a quasi-experimental pre-test-post-test with an experimental and control group. They were selected by available means and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group underwent 8 sessions of philosophy program training for children with enrichment of digital technologies and the control group did not receive this training. To collect and measure the data of this study,was used the rumination questionnaire (Nolen Hooksma and Moro) and the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (Argyle and Lou) were used. To analyze the data, analysis of covariance .Findings: The results showed that there was a significant difference between the mean scores of rumination and happiness of the two groups in the post-test, assuming that the pre-test variable was included (P <0.001); That is, according to the evaluation of children, the two experimental and control groups were different in the variables of rumination and happiness in the post-test stage. Conclusion: It can be concluded that the employment of technology-enhanced program of philosophy for children can make a contribution to reducing rumination thoughts and improving happiness of orphaned and abused children.
hamideh etesami; Abdollah Shafiabadi
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The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of training for "Philosophy for Children" on Moral development of sixth-grade male elementary students, in Educational District NO.6 in Tehran. The research was a quasi-experimental one with the pre-test and post-test design involving both ...
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The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of training for "Philosophy for Children" on Moral development of sixth-grade male elementary students, in Educational District NO.6 in Tehran. The research was a quasi-experimental one with the pre-test and post-test design involving both experimental and control groups. The (statistical) population consisted of all sixth-grade male students of the Educational District No.6 in Tehran in October 2017, among them15 subiects were selected through convenience sampling method and were randomly assigned into two groups. The instruments of the Spiritual-Moral Development (1391) Scale measured both these groups(experimental and control) in the pre-test stage. Then, the experimental group were trained for P4C in 8 sessions using the educational package of stories for Iranian children, but the control group did not receive any training. The above tools were used in both pre-test and post-test stages. The data was analyzed by means of one-variable covariance analysis. The results showed that the implementation of the independent variable caused an increase of the scores on moral development in comparison with the control group.One of the main goals of the philosophy program for children and adolescents is to strengthen thinking in childhood. Accordingly, the training of wise, self-conscious, precise, responsible, moral, social, researcher, critical, self-critical, and ... persons will be accomplished by this program.
