Designing an Educational Framework for Developing Women’s Existential Capacities in Muslim societies: a Qualitative Research

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to provide the training needed to develop woman empowerment. The method of the present study is a qualitative case study. Potential participants in this study included experts and faculty in various fields of education (sociology), sociology, law and psychology, as well as sample women in Fars province (sample managers and mothers), using purposive sampling method. The theoretical saturation criterion was selected from 15 specialists and 10 sample mothers and 5 sample women who had managerial tenure. The method of data collection was in-depth interview and study of documents related to the research subject. The content analysis method was used to provide the training needed to realize the development of women's empowerment and identify the challenges in this area. As a result of the necessary trainings for empowering mothers, 5 themes were organized: art education, skill training, spiritual and religious education, psycho-cognitive education, socio-economic education, and the challenges ahead in implementing such an important one. Exploring various issues such as women's resistance, male resistance, local community resistance, economic and political problems, and finally solutions to make the empowerment components of mother’s work. Accreditation and reliability techniques were used to validate the qualitative results.

Keywords

• education
• empowerment
• development
• women
• muslim societies