Evaluation of Religious Animations in the IRIB

Moussa Pour, Nematoallah; Dortaj, Fariba

doi:10.7508/ijcr.2008.03.007

Evaluation of Religious Animations in the IRIB

Authors

Nematoallah Moussa Pour ¹

Fariba Dortaj ²

¹ Assistant professor of Psychology, University of Shahid Bahonar

² M.A. in Education, Member of IRIB Kerman Branch

10.7508/ijcr.2008.03.007

Abstract

Religious education has an elevated status and a great value in Iranian religious society. Using different methods and instruments to realize this goal has been always considered by those involved in education. At the present time, television is an effective means for communicating with social groups. One of those groups is children who can be exposed to messages by animations. The effectiveness of animation is a function of the manner in which it has been produced. Therefore, we can ask whether psychological principles have been observed in the production of religious animations for children. This article, written for evaluating religious animations used in the television, aims at identifying sixteen principles governing the production of animations for children. To do this, the authors referred to authentic sources in psychology and media studies after gathering data and composing them, managed to identify the principles governing the production of animation. The numbers of these principles have been applied to the production of animations, a checklist was prepared and the data were extracted from analyzing two religious animations, two domestic non-religious animations and two foreign non-religious animations. Non-religious animations were analyzed to make possible the suggested that the producers of religious animations pay special attention to do this point.

Keywords

animation

child

effectiveness

religious animation

religious education

religious teaching

Television

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