Identifying Solutions to Deepening Religious Education in the Cyberspace

Ali Naqi Faqihi *

Hassan Najafi**

The present research aims at identifying solutions to deepening religious education as a major concern in the contemporary society of Islamic Republic of Iran. This research explains three groups of approved solutions including cognitive, affection, and performance organization solutions. The review and interpretation method of research is used to collect data required to achieve goals. The Quranic verses and Islamic traditions as well as the related research records have been collected on note-taking forms and then analyzed. To help identify the actual self -identity, creating proper insight, promotion of intellection, training wisdom, knowing media literacy, developing the doctrine of critique, and knowing  consequences of behavior are among cognitive solutions to refer. The solutions to the affection dimension also include flourishing the innate nature, developing the sense of self-value, promoting the sense of respecting other people’s desires, deepening the affections of belief, and so forth. The presence of religious education experts in cyberspace, making accessible the virtual tools for Islamic education, supporting producers of religious content, practical planning for self-evaluation and accounting, the parent’s supervision and accompany, and so on, are among solutions to performance organization referred to in this research.   

Keywords: cyberspace, religious education, internalization, solutions

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*. Associate professor in  Education Sciences Department, University of Qom, an-faghihi@qom.ac.ir

**. M.A graduate in Curriculum Studies, Shahed University in Tehran, hnajafih@yahoo.com