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Purpose: The purpose of the present research is to review the effectiveness of philosophy education program for children on critical thinking and its components in elementary fourth-grader girl students. Material and method: This was a semi-experimental study with designing pretest and posttest and the control group with following-up phase. Findings: This statistical population consists of elementary fourth-grader girl students in Arak, district 2. The sample of this research consists of 50 students that were selected by convenience sampling method and divided to two control and test groups. Shabani (1999) critical thinking questionnaire was used for data collection. Discussion: The results of covariance analysis showed that execution of the philosophy education program for children improves critical thinking, recognition ability, analogizing, and judgments in children (P<0.05). Furthermore, the effectiveness of philosophy education program for children was durable in fallowing-up test.

Purpose: This study is investigating the position of components of sustainable development in experimental science course of Elementary Schools of Iran and presenting an optimum framework and its validation. Methodology: The statistical population is a group of monitoring experts on the components of sustainable development as well as a set of experimental science textbooks in sixth grade of elementary schools of Iran during the academic year of 2016-2017. The sample size according to Morgan's sampling table in expert group was 80 and 12 volumes of textbooks sets, including teacher guides. The sample size in the group of experts was 80 according to Morgan's sampling table and 12 volumes in the collection of textbooks, including teacher guides. Findings: The results of the research indicate that the amount of emphasis on the component of the consumption pattern was 5.24% in objectives, 5.86% in educational content, 6.05% in teaching method and 6.69% in assessment. In the waste disposal component, the emphasis is: 4.1% in objectives, 2.15 % in educational content, 2.78% in teaching method and 5.1% in assessment. In the component of animal conservation, the emphasis is: 15.68 % in objectives, 18.03 % in educational content, 9.4 % in teaching method and 9.39 % in assessment In the energy component, the emphasis is: 12.29 % in objectives, 14.59 % in educational content, 14.66 % in teaching method and 13.25 % in assessment. Discussion: In sum, the amount of emphasis of the curriculum of the experimental science course of Elementary Schools was in middle level compared to the six components of sustainable development, and needs to be reviewed.

Purpose: The purpose of the present study was Presentation of Competency Model Needed by Elementary Education Graduates of Farhangian University based on the theory Deliberative Inquiry. The method of qualitative research, type of phenomenology and content analysis, was a statistical society of faculty members in the field of curriculum and all scientific sources and documents. Method: The semi-structured interview data collection method and the use of checklist and encoding were used. Also, for interpreting the data, an interpretative analysis method was used. Findings: The results of the research show that the experts of the curriculum have considered contemplative, developing thinking, arts and aesthetics, perception, problem solving, decision making, skill orientation, and professional development. Conclusion: Accordingly, four main curriculum elements Flexibly, including educational goals, educational content, teaching methods and evaluation, were analyzed and the optimal model of elementary curriculum for teacher students of Farhangian University was designed in 3 main areas of knowledge, attitude and ability (skill), and was evaluated and validated The validation results show that the proposed pattern is relatively favorable.