A Training Program to Provide Non- Native Arabic Kindergarten Children with Some Islamic Concepts and Etiquette in Accordance to Islamic Educational Thought

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Deputy Director of the Al-Azhar Institute for Teaching Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages

2 Lecturer of Islamic Education - College of Education for Boys in Cairo - Al-Azhar University

Abstract

The research aimed to develop a training program to provide kindergarten children who speak non-Arabic with some Islamic concepts and etiquette in light of Islamic educational thought and to verify the extent of its effectiveness, to state the most important opinions of educational thought scholars on introducing Islamic concepts and etiquette to kindergarten children, and to reveal the characteristics of kindergarten children who speak non-Arabic. The research used: The descriptive analytical method: It is an approach that depends on collecting, classifying, and interpreting data. The research process is not complete until this data is organized, analyzed, and conclusions that are significant and significant in relation to the research problem are extracted from it. The quasi-experimental approach was also used: to determine the effectiveness of the independent variable (the program) on the dependent variable (introducing kindergarten children to Islamic concepts and etiquette) through a (pre-post) design. The research reached several results, the most important of which are: that employing advanced technology in teaching religious concepts to non-Arabic speaking kindergarten children has a positive impact on the children’s acquisition of these concepts. The research also concluded that the programs provided to children should be based on educational, cultural, linguistic and psychological foundations; In order to be able to achieve the goal for which it was set, building programs first requires identifying children’s pedagogical, educational and psychological needs and working to meet them in a way that is commensurate with their linguistic, physical, cognitive, emotional and moral characteristics.

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