Elementary School Teachers’ Life Experience with the Challenges of Teaching in Farsi in Bilingual Areas   M. Ghaaderi, Ph.D.* K. Bolandhemmataan, Ph.D.** F. Havaasbeigi*** S. Babakaani****   To identify the challenges facing elementary school teachers in teaching bilingual students in Farsi, a group of 31 such teachers (14 of them men) ages 28-43 and 5-29 years of teachin...

according to mulla sadra in his famous work, al-asfar , god’s pre-knowledge is a set of epistemic forms which are (1) inseparable from his essence, (2) uncreated, (3) beyond the universe, (4) devoid of real possibility, (5) eternal per se, and (6) extant by his extance. tabatabayi in nihayat al-hilmah believes that the term, “inseparable”, in (1) does not mean “out of essence”; otherwise, (1) w...

This article is part of a Minifocus on the ESCRT machinery. For further reading, please see related articles: ‘No strings attached: the ESCRT machinery in viral budding and cytokinesis’ by Bethan McDonald and Juan Martin-Serrano (J. Cell Sci. 122, 2167-2177) and ‘How do ESCRT proteins control autophagy?’ by Tor Erik Rusten and Harald Stenmark (J. Cell Sci. 122, 2179-2183). The endosomal sorting...

The purpose of this exploratory study was to compare three experts and three novices in a Web-based problem solving context. The task was to search and evaluate Web sources for writing a research paper on a topic (inquiry based instruction, or IBI) that was unfamiliar to the users. The following research questions guided the study: (1) What type of navigational strategies do experts and novices...

the conceptual, indicative analysis of the qur’anic words as well as the recognition of their functions and the link between them consist an areas in the qur’anic studies which has been under the focus of many scholars. the three words, rawh, nūr and sakīnah, whose semantic link requires a lot of contemplation, are among these words. through the application of an analytical method as well as a ...

the major aim of this article is to determine the role of culture in perceptual learning style (pls) preferences of iranian english learners, in order to minimize teacher-student style conflict in the classroom. to do this, 400 university students from different fields of study were selected from allameh tabatabaee university in tehran, ferdowsi university of mashhad and mashhad university of m...

the emergence of rationalist and traditionist approaches among moslems was the result of attention to different verses of the holy quran, some denoting reasoning and some denoting devotion. these different approaches to quran led to the formation of mo'tazele and asha'arites schools among the sunnites and osuliyyun (rationalists) and traditionists among the shiites. this difference wa...