The availability of deductive thinking skills in the content of Fiqh curriculum activity books in preparatory schools in Saudi Arabia

Abstract

The study aims to identify the availability of deductive reasoning skills in the content of books activity with the decision of jurisprudence in preparatory schools of Saudi Arabia, the study drew on the descriptive and analytical approach, and its tool (content) analysis card. The population and sample of analysis is created from the full content of the six activity books of Fiqh for preparatory schools of Saudi Arabia (published in 1436/1437 AH). The educational activity was selected as a unit to analyze the content. The results of the content analysis of all the books for Grade 1, 2 and 3 revealed 173 occurrences of the inferential thinking skills, where the skill of deductive thinking came first with a score of (48.55%) in terms of the number of activities involving these skills, and with average availability. Then came the deductive thinking skill with a score of (30.63%) and low availability. On the third place came the skill of inductive thinking in third place by (20.8%) and low availability. In the light of the results, the study proposed a number of recommendations, the most important of which is achieving the quantitative balance in the activities of the activities books among all grades, and raising the degree of the availability of deductive thinking.