Analysis of spiritual awareness in heavenly gifts curriculum of second grade elementary schools in Iran

ABSTRACT Spiritual self-awareness is defined as a person’s knowledge and awareness of all human capacities, namely innate and God-given talents, which is meant to understand the existence of God, to communicate with God, creation and nature, as well as to achieve faith and belief in purposefulness and immortality of human life in order to reach balance and transcendence of the soul. Our goal is to examine more closely the components of spiritual self-awareness in Heavenly Gifts curriculum assigned to second grade of Iran's elementary education system. The research findings in terms of goals, content, teaching and assessment methods are as follows: Goal, content and teaching methods: the component of spiritual beliefs highest frequency, emphasis, and greatest weight and suggested in teacher instruction manual has been in the field of knowledge, the final activities of each course are appropriate for evaluating the knowledge level of spiritual beliefs.