- Book Title : Principles of Religious Program Making for Children (In conversation with experts in the fields of religion, media, and children)
- Author : Mohammad Sadegh Nasrollahi, under the supervision of Mohammad Mahdi Shariatmadar
- Publication Year : 2013
- Number of Pages : 136
Description:
The book “Principles of Religious Program Making for Children” outlines the conceptual model of children’s religious education in the radio and television of Islamic countries and, based on it, offers principles, strategies, and suggestions.
The book “Principles of Religious Program Making for Children“, prepared by Mohammad Sadegh Nasrollahi, outlines the conceptual model of children’s religious education in the radio and television of Islamic countries and, based on it, offers principles, strategies, and suggestions.
This book is a research study on the method of propagating religion for children through media. Its goal is to achieve specific strategies, principles, and rules in the field of children’s religious education through audiovisual media. To achieve this goal, interviews have been conducted with experts in five fields: religion, psychology, sociology, communications, and children’s literature.
In this book, after posing the problem, the importance and necessity of the research are explained, and an attempt is made to answer why this topic has been prioritized for the specialized meeting of the Islamic Radio and Television Union’s Islamic Studies Committee. Next, after stating the research methodology, the content of the conducted interviews is presented within specific thematic chapters. In the final section, based on the conducted interviews and other studies with a novel approach, an attempt has been made to outline a conceptual model of “children’s religious education in radio and television” from the experts’ viewpoints and propose principles and strategies based on it.
After the introduction, the book is in three chapters:
- Generalities
- An introduction to pathology and policy-making in the field of religion, media, and children
- The conceptual model of children’s education through media is presented.
Chapter one covers problem formulation, research importance, research methodology, and interviewees; chapter two covers the thematic chart of experts’ viewpoints, pathology, and policy-making; and chapter three covers the theoretical framework of the conceptual model and the explanation of the conceptual model.
Islam’s emphasis on the proper upbringing of children, the child’s readiness to accept and internalize religious rituals, the West’s effort and endeavor to negatively influence children’s minds, the role of the child in the future of Islamic societies, and the importance of the media’s role in religious propagation, etc., are cited as the importance and value of this research.
The methodology of this research is documentary study and in-depth interviews with experts in a qualitative research. Its main question is: based on psychology, what principles should be considered in policy-making and program-making for children, especially in the field of religious education?
