Methods of expressing Quranic concepts for children and teenagers

• Title: Methods of Expressing Quranic Concepts for Children and Young People
• Student: Mohsen Rabbani
• Supervisor: Hojatoleslam Rastgoo
• University: IRIB – Faculty of Qom, Department of Media Arts
• Degree Level: Master’s
• Major: Television Production
• Defense Date: 2002

Abstract:

In this paper, an effort has been made to address the issue that the need of children and young people audiences is to understand and then apply Quranic concepts, rather than merely teaching information and Quranic terminology (which is useful and necessary in its own right, but not sufficient). Therefore, an attempt has been made first to understand the child and adolescent audience with their various characteristics, and then, while understanding the medium, to achieve a more accurate understanding of appropriate content for the audiences. Hence, in the first part of this paper, the characteristics of children and adolescents in various physical, emotional, mental, and moral domains have been examined. In the second part, the characteristics of appropriate programs for children and adolescents are discussed, which include television characteristics and the structure of children and young people programs. In the third part, Quranic topics that can be presented to children are categorized into four general groups: creed-related issues, ritual issues, moral issues, and teachings. In addition to examining the perspective of children and young people at various age groups regarding these topics, sub-topics suitable for children and young people under each general topic have been provided. In the fourth part, practical methods of expressing Quranic concepts for three age periods—early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence—are examined and discussed by separating the four main topics for each period, and solutions are presented with numerous examples.