The Spiritual Curriculum Model in Teacher Training University

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Assistant Professor of Educational Sciences, University of Farhangian, Kermanshah, Iran

Abstract

The present research focused on the design, explanation and validation of the spiritual curriculum model in Teacher Training University. The current research was a combination of exploratory type. The first phase of the research was qualitative and the method was descriptive and included document analysis and content analysis with a practical approach. The analytical community included texts and resources related to the spiritual curriculum. The corpus comprised of texts and resources related to the field of spiritual curriculum, which were purposefully selected, and among which 15 internal and external sources that were more consistent with the religious and philosophical foundations governing the education system were identified and analyzed. The measurement tools, note-taking form as well as content analysis checklist which were devised by the researcher. The obtained data were analyzed using thematic categorization and coding. In the quantitative phase, the sample size included one 150 professors of Teacher Training University who were randomly selected. The method of data collection in this section was a questionnaire that was prepared and adjusted using the categories obtained in the qualitative section. The findings of the research showed that the model of spiritual curriculum in Teacher Training University is based on ontology (cosmology and anthropology), values and epistemology and the main categories, supernaturalism, empiricism, aesthetics, comprehensiveness, self-knowledge and rationalism. Composed. Also, the findings indicated that the obtained model has sufficient credibility to be implemented in Teacher Training University.

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Journal of higher education curriculum studies
Volume 13, Issue 26
February 2023
Pages 161-188

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