Education Strategies Derived from Quranic Anthropology with Emphasis on the Role of Tendencies in Human Nature

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to infer educational strategies based on Quranic anthropology. The present study is applied and practical in terms of purpose, qualitative in terms of approach, and inferential in terms of method. The findings of this study are: Man has cognition, tendency and ability to act, and out of the interaction of these three dimensions, the following effects are emerged: tendencies are the essence of human existence and they are strengthened or weakened by awareness and action. Tendencies are divided into two categories: deep - stable and superficial - transient. Tendencies can strengthen or weaken each other. The clearer a person's awareness, the closer it is to their beliefs and more attention is going to be paid to cognition. Besides, frequent reference to this awareness will further strengthen or weaken the tendency. Performing a specific action strengthens both the tendency that supports it and all the tendencies that are appropriate to it and weakens its opposite tendencies. Educational strategies include: paying attention to action and continuous practice of it, paving the way and facilitating and using the environment as a guiding tool, providing education gradually and in accordance with the desires and needs, exhibiting goodness and good deeds to flourish and strengthen innate desires, listening to and benefiting from the advice of mentors and good leaders, using various formats of presenting content and facilitating the passage from superficial and transient desires and tendencies to deep and long-lasting ones

Keywords

• tendency
• awareness
• action
• strategy