Document Type : Special

Authors

• Abbas Mohammadi ¹
• Seyyed Reza Balaghat ²

¹ M.A. in of History and Philosophy of Education, University of Sistan and Baluchestan. Iran

² Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Sistan and Baluchestan University, Qom, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to teach philosophy to children based on Islamic foundations to prevent social harms. The qualitative research method is descriptive-analytical and inferential. Considering the importance and role of teaching philosophy to children based on Islamic foundations in country’s education and even Islamic world and its vacuum in the educational system of country, the present research aims to explain the disadvantages of the traditional method of teaching and its inefficiency for the needs and developments of present world and emphasize on teaching philosophy to children based on Islamic foundations and the necessity of children's philosophical education and its role in preventing social harms such as delinquency, addiction, divorce, immorality, negative effects of cyberspace. The purpose of philosophy education curriculum for children based on Islamic foundations is to modify the way of thinking in schools and to create the element of thought in the educational system of Islamic countries. The purpose of next stage is to educate citizens who are creative, critic, inventor, and have the power of reasoning and independence, wisdom, analyst, lawful and responsible, which all of these features belong to an explorer and sensible community. This curriculum tries to educate reasoning, differentiation and judgment from childhood, so that they will be able to think and decide by themselves, and choose the best. In other words, they will achieve the ability of self-learning and learning lifelong. If such a community is realized, the unconscious of community will be safe from social harms.

Keywords

• Education
• Philosophy and Child
• Islamic Foundations
• Social Harms
• Self-Learning