Employing the aesthetic approach to give female students of the fifth literary grade the Islamic values of refinement and their emotional development

The study aimed to identify the effect of employing the aesthetic approach in developing the emotional intelligence of fifth-grade literary female students in the Holy Quran and Islamic Education course. The study was based on the experimental method and adopted the experimental design of two equivalent groups with a pre-test and post.test. The study sample consisted of (44) female students who were divided into two groups: experimental and control. The first group represented the experimental group and consisted of (20) students who studied using the aesthetic approach. The second group represented the control group and consisted of (22) students who studied using the traditional method. The researcher developed a tool to measure emotional intelligence consisting of (47) items distributed over five dimensions based on Daniel Goleman's scale (1995). To extract the research results, the following statistical methods were used: the independent two-sample t-test and the paired two-sample t-test. After applying the research tool before and after on the two research groups (experimental and control) and conducting the statistical analyzes, the results showed the superiority of the experimental group that studied using the aesthetic approach over the control group that studied using the traditional method in developing emotional intelligence. In light of that, the researcher presented a set of recommendations and suggestions.