INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN THE HUMANITIES (IRANIAN JOURNAL OF CULTURAL RESEARCH)
Year:2012 | Volume:4 | Issue:4 (16)|Papers Count:8

Interdisciplinary activities are frequently heralded as innovative and groundbreaking, a necessity for confronting the numerous social, cultural and economic challenges facing higher education. This article considers the inherent conflict between the professoriate and the university structure related to interdisciplinary. It concentrates on strategies that cultivate the sort of change necessary for interdisciplinary advancement. The article addresses the engagement of faculty with interdisciplinary efforts and the institutional support of such work as requiring a cultural change in institutional behavior. Cultivating interdisciplinary change requires attention to the multiple cultural layers the university comprises. One emphasis must be placed on the basic structure of academic work, the departments and colleges, where faculty members spend a majority of their time and intellectual resources. Another emphasis occurs at the institutional level, when the campus fosters a culture where interdisciplinary work is valued, encouraged, and supported. This article focuses on these facets of change and offer guidelines for engaging faculty in interdisciplinary endeavors.

Higher education as a human resource development and production of knowledge system play an important role in economic development, social and cultural rights in any country. The role of human development, particularly in developing countries and experienced professionals, especially faculty is undeniable. In this twenty-year perspective can be considered for future community development. In this document, the need to develop human resources with advanced knowledge, enabling the production of science and technology, human resources and social capital rests on top of emphasis. Hence the importance of higher education can be realized in the future development of the country.Thus, the nature and quality of an institution of higher education depends on the quality of its faculty member. Respond to the emerging needs of the scientific communities interdisciplinary studies are needed.The article focus on the concept of the faculty development and different aspect of it then new approaches to the role of faculty in promoting interdisciplinary research located at the end of the analysis and new strategies is presented to improve the quality of interdisciplinary science.

Quality education and research, including the major concerns of higher education systems in most countries of the world. Surveys show that despite its role in human resource development and universities have always been the efforts of this is that they can train students to solve community problems, and failures of education is still lacking. University as an organization that plays an essential role in the development of scientific, cultural and professional training should keep pace with scientific developments, and educational needs of national and global scale, continuous process to improve their educational quality. This study examines some of the factors affecting educational quality has been improved. These include supporting students and professors, faculty, administrative services, library services, educational programs and locations, are infrastructure and facilities. To identify and ranking factors that influence the improving educational quality using the AHP approach is used to the opinions of 130 people of Professors and Students of the University. According to information obtained by using expert choice software provided training program with a weight 0.338 has the greatest impact on improving the quality of education. Then faculty members with weight 0.246, Supporting students and teachers with weight 0.122, Location, infrastructure and facilities with weight 0.103, Library Services with weight 0.102, Administrative Services with weight 0.089, The are next priorities.

The goal of the research Analytical and Comparative study of characteristics curriculum higher education for Distance studies in Iran and England and India In this study the similarities and differences of curriculum characteristics of higher education institutions in these countries from a distance in order to improve the Iranian education system of comparison. Comparative cultural research study by type-descriptive Anatomy descriptive and its methods based on comparative analysis, in accordance with the method and procedures shall be such as brodi Required information for responsiveness to questions through a library of documents and search the global network of original articles and reports on related and Internet sites of the Ministry of higher education and research in developing countries is gathering case study The most important results obtained have shown that the use of successful experiences in the developing countries and its localization and drawing the landscape of higher education from a distance due to raise the power of selecting students, promotion of innovation and action fronts and be remote education system accordingly to the necessity of integrated approach on Integrated and methods of distance learning and paying attention to the fundamentals, and This system students individual differences in axial and educational emphasis on design.

By going through different definitions of public administration, we can generally consider it as: the implementing of managerial, political, and legal theories to fulfill legislative, executive, and judicial mandates for the provision of governmental regulatory and service functions. By reviewing these definitions of public administration, this article states that interdisciplinarity is an inevitable concept of public administration's education and research in each government. Scanning and analysing pioneer courses of public administration in the world, shows that scholars of this area constantly were using different ways to achieve an interdisciplinary education in this field. For achieving it's real role of governing the Islamic state, the field of public administration in Iran should pay more attention and effort to interdisciplinary education. In this regard, by looking into current situation and style of curriculum planning of this field in Iran, the requirements of interdisciplinary curriculum planning are proposed in 7 different themes as: 1) team of curriculum planning, 2) goals of curriculum planning , 3) content and combination of curriculum, 4) integration approaches, 5) learning-teaching requirements, 6) evaluation methods of academic achievement and 7) curriculum evaluating methods. Also by considering recent innovative experience of Imam Sadiq university in Iran in this area, some implications are drawn to improve this important field in the country.

The main aim of present study was to determine the the relationship between organizational climate (open and closed) and mental health and personality among students in public art schools in the city of Karaj. Using a cluster random sampling method, 80 students were selected out of 8 public art schools. The Mental Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and the Personality Test Aizeng phenomenon were employed to collected data among respondents. Statistical analysis of the correlation test, correlation coefficient and test validity coefficient of determination (v) were employed to determine the assumed relationships. Results indicated that there is significant relationship between public health and personality of the students. In addition findings showed a significant relationship between general health and personality of the students while the organizational climate was open. However there was no relationship in a closed climate. Based on the research findings and review of the previous researches, it could be concluded that there is significant relationship between general health and personality.