Educational Development of Judishapur

Educational Development of Judishapur

The Effectiveness of Integrated Approach of Khwajah Nasiral-Din Tousi Moral Education and Piaget Cognitive Process on Changing Teachers' Attitudes in the Process of Moral Education of Students

Author
Majid Mahmoodi Mozafar
Faculty member, Department of Educational Science and psychology, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
This study examines the effectiveness of integrated approach of Tusi moral education and Piaget cognitive development on teachers' attitudes in the moral education process of elementary school students. The research method was quasi-experimental in which pretest-posttest design was used for experimental and control groups. The statistical population included elementary school teachers of Region 2 Tehran. Sample group including 30 people in the experimental group and 30 people in the control group were selected randomly from subsidiary schools in Region 2 Tehran. The measuring instrument was attitude measuring questionnaire developed by researchers inclusive of 30 questions with Likert scale 5 points which its reliability was 84.0 based on the retest score and was 85.0 based on Cronbach's alpha. The teachers attended in 8 4-hour training sessions in the form of a workshop. While understanding the attitude, they learned designing lesson plans skills based on moral education of Tousi and Piaget cognitive development. The results showed that cognition and approaches design skills influence on change the human attitude in the process of moral education
Keywords
Teacher Training
Khwajah Nasiral
Din Tousi moral Education
Piaget Cognitive Development
Integrated Approach
Teachers'
attitudes
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Educational Development of Judishapur
Volume 7, ویژه نامه95
Winter 2016
Pages 95-104