Presenting a Philosophy Education Model for Children in a Cooperative Method with Emphasis on Social Intelligence

Abstract

: The purpose of this study was to present a model of teaching philosophy to children in a cooperative method with emphasis on social intelligence on elementary students of education in district five. The statistical population in this section of the study was academic community experts and education professionals with executive backgrounds in decision-making levels known as knowledgeable experts. This group was selected to conduct the qualitative part of the research and participate in the interview process using the Delphi method; the qualitative part of the present study purposely describes the open coding of Budastras and Corbin (1990). From the analysis that is specifically related to naming and categorizing the phenomenon through careful examination of the data. In other words, in this type of coding, the concepts within the interviews and documents are classified according to their relevance to similar topics. The result of this step is to massively distill and summarize information obtained from interviews and documents into concepts and categories that are like these questions. The results showed that human cognition, relation of concepts to each other, social intelligence, concept definitions, reasoning about concepts and critical thinking respectively have the highest factor loadings and factor weight on the second-order factor six-factor model of philosophy education for children through cooperative method.