This research purpose was to identify educational indices for Primary education. To this aim, two studies were performed. The first study analyzed the educational goals as well as the books written for Primary education, gathered teachers’ and experts’ views on the subject and identified the first draft of educational indices. The second study gathered specialists’ views in five educational dimensions of ideological, moral, cultural- artefact, social, and political. As a result, based on specialists’ views, among 112 proposed indices, only 49 were accepted.

Sailors are a unique occupational group in terms of access to medical facilities in times of crisis, such as the COVID-19 epidemic. On the large or small vessels, sailors may spend a long time away from standard medical services. In addition, job restrictions, closed living space, and long distance from family members during longdistance voyages make it difficult for sailors to prevent and treat diseases that occur at sea compared to landlocked individuals. Therefore, due to the nature of their work and travel to different countries through water, sailors are exposed to potential risks of disease. Given the risk of sailors and the importance of disease prevention education in this group, Tele education is a good opportunity to improve the knowledge of sailors in the field of infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and its prevention. This training can be provided using communication tools. Tele education for sailors can be done in two dimensions: self-care training for the prevention of COVID-19, and specific self-care training for the prevention of common diseases. In this way, the sailors' knowledge and awareness will increase and their insights and attitudes in the field of prevention of infectious diseases will be enhanced, and also their performance in this field will be improved that lead to the health and well-being.

The present study aims to design and validate the religious education curriculum pattern of elementary school. Qualitative content analysis, documentary based and descriptive-analytical research methods have been used in this study. The considered sample for data collection consists of 15 curriculum specialists and other specialists related to the research topic and 40 sources related to religious education curriculum that are purposively selected. Data collection techniques include semi-structured individual interviews with specialists and qualitative analysis of texts. The data obtained from the interviews have been analyzed using deductive coding. The findings of this study show the characteristics of religious education curriculum elements for the purpose, content, and learning activities, method and evaluation. The Primary pattern of religious education curriculum is designed. Meanwhile the process, steps, and the way of presenting the religious education curriculum pattern derived from previous studies are related to the subject. The religious education curriculum pattern of elementary school is also extracted. The proposed pattern has been confirmed after being validated and adjusted by specialists and experts. The results of this study can be used in designing the religious education curriculum of elementary school.

The present study investigated the status of Primary education curricula in the system of higher education from the educational experts, perspective. It also proposed applicable ways to improve curricula status. In this study, five hypotheses concerned with Primary education status, purposes, content, teaching methodology and evaluation. This research conducted through Survey research design. Research population comprised 500 instructors teach in Islamic azad University. Sample population (n= 100) were selected through cluster random sampling. They filled an 83-item researcher-made questionnaire. Data analysis was conducted through descriptive (frequency, percentage, mean and SD) and inferential (Z scores) statistics through SPSS.11. The results of the study showed that the present Primary curricula should be radically revised due to curricula problems concerning specific educational purposes.

Global education (GE) emphasizes on the preparation of students in such a way that their needs in today's ever-changing world are rather easily met. One such a need is the discovery and utilization of better ways of life. Towards this end, the GE maintains three characteristics: being interdisciplinary, emphasizing curiosity and skepticism, and promoting active learning.The GE Project in Iran has been a four-year experiment that started in 2001- 2002 academic year. 20 Primary schools and 20 guidance schools in five provinces, including Tehran, participated in the project. The project developer and implementers have tried to implement the project with the least possible amount cost and change in the current curriculum. In this paper, the third phase of the project, implemented at the third grade level, is comprehensively evaluated in three areas of inputs, processes, and outputs.The findings indicate that: in designing educational activities, it seems the attention to the skills is much more than the other two areas, and to the attitudes much less. In designing most of the activities 2 to 4 dimensions of the GE were utilized.Although resolving some of these shortcomings and judging the effectiveness of the project requires  more time, but the removal of three basic limitations and provision of the necessary tools and facilities for schools, along with further familiarization of the activity designers with the global and participatory education and global curricula in other countries, and continuous instruction for teachers and principals seem necessary if the project is to be successful.

This study aims to outline the place of caring ethics in the textbooks of Primary education at Farhangian University in Iran. In this study, based on the Nodding's theory of caring, all relevant textbooks were reviewed using the content analysis method. Findings from the content analysis showed that in the analyzed books, the concept of avoiding harm was paid the most attention and other concepts of the ethics of care including the concept of care, sympathy, receptive attention, caring relation, caring action, the caregiver confirmation and the "cared for" privacy has not taken attention appropriately. Since these concepts are the principal axes of caring ethics, considering these concepts and their inclusion in the content of textbooks, the teacher education for Primary schools of Farhangian University can help student teachers to understand the concepts of ethics of care, use them in Primary school and develop these concepts in the education system.

Following recent developments in Astronomy and Astrophysics this paper aimed to investigate the possibility of offering astronomy programs in formal and informal education. It also explored implications and the facilities required for proper astronomy courses. To this end, various educational institutions and facilities such as schools, students' research centers and institute for the intellectual development of children and young adults were reviewed. Finally, influential factors related to development and implementation of astronomy courses In public education were examined. Findings indicated that there is an appropriate potential for offering such courses.