Teachings of Economic Education Based on the Verses of Quran in the Realm of Distribution

Document Type : پژوهشی

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1 Ph.D student, Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University (RA), Tehran, Iran.

2 Professor, Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.

3 Professor, Department of Fiqh and Fundamentals of Islamic Law, Faculty of Theology, Imam Sadiq University, Tehran, Iran.

4 Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Programs for teaching economic issues with the goal of economic education besides teaching other basic skills are becoming an essential element of school curriculums in developed countries which shows the increasing importance and necessity of such trainings.This research was conducted with the aim of determining the components of economic education in the field of distribution based on the verses of the Quran.The method of conducting the research has been text analysis using deductive-inductive method. The scope of the research encompassed the verses of the Holy Quran, all the verses of the Quran were scrutinized and the verses related to the subject of the research were analyzed using the purposive sampling method.A researcher-made questionnaire was also used to get the approval of experts in Quranic and economic sciences from the Economic and Quranic professors teaching at universities in Tehran.Ten professors were selected by purposive sampling to confirm the relation of the extracted categories with the objectives of the research and they were interviewed with questions in the form of semi-structured interviews.In the end nine components were identified under the concept of distribution including:avoiding economic corruption,donation and charity,avoiding stinginess,confronting sanctions,disapproval of wealth accumulation,justice and fairness, taxation,financial responsibility and interest-free loans.

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