INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN THE HUMANITIES (IRANIAN JOURNAL OF CULTURAL RESEARCH)
Year:2013 | Volume:5 | Issue:4 (20)|Papers Count:8

Lifestyle is a phenomenon which provides beliefs، values، knowledge and interpersonal competencies in social-personal situations. Lifestyle makes the real part of human civilization; however it does not occur as a simple and linear. Crystallization of the inner human، means lifestyle، is seriously affected by the action’s position; time and location based on personal perception، which together form the context of the action. While religion makes the main basis of a religious person’s lifestyle، but the institutional actor is affected by the current realities of organization’s life and acts in terms of laws and requirements which resulted in different lifestyles. In confrontation between religious beliefs and institutional realities، three situations may consider including full conformity، partial conformity and non-conformity. In each of these forms a particular lifestyle based on the university condition may emerge، which is known as academic educators’ lifestyle. The importance of these forms is due to the effect of them on educational effectiveness of academic activities. The educator is not only a person with a personal lifestyle، but also is a “lifestyle learner” which it acts with a latent and indirect manner. If the implementation of “Modern Islamic Civilization” is important، and the “real part” of it، is made by people’s life context and visibly and invisibly is affected by educators’ manners in each society، therefore the explanation of academic educators’ practice is important since they are the main reference of lifestyle model for young.

Life- style، as one new concept and man-made construct، has a significant role in shaping man’s cultural life، and as such in today cultural world، whatever studies which could dimensions، developments، potentials and damages explain of this social and cultural Phenomenon is bound to be welcome. In recent years، Life- style، one of the most important research areas has been in the Sociology and cultural studies topics.While the research findings of this theoretical study focus on psychological roots of style and like: Individual differences، habits، preferences and in general، Behaviors differ in interpersonal and interactions with other human agents that to be considered Psychological Thematic. However the main argument of the present paper is that life- style in Psychological new theories، In addition based on individual differs and efforts are based on team Interaction and also need to pay attention to social – cultural Context. In this article With such an approach and through the Interdisciplinary method، the author has tried to explain some of the applications focusing on Iranian society which through combining two Islamic Viewpoints and interdisplinary approach take efficacy.

In the contemporary era in countries in transition، especially those countries which have a long history in founding and maintaining traditional institutions for higher education in the humanities، we have witnessed the simultaneous presence of traditional and modern institutions for higher education in the humanities. This simultaneous presence has often revealed itself in the form of conflicting coexistence and has caused a kind of non-productive action in the space of production and consumption of the humanities in these societies. Iran، as a country in transition، with the aforesaid history in founding traditional institutions for higher education in the humanities، which has also tried in the last one hundred years to establish modern institutions for higher education in the humanities، has experienced the same trend. After the 1979 Revolution in Iran، attempt was made to combine the traditional and modern models of higher education in the humanities. Although this combination did not produce the desired results at first، it seems that today، on the basis of this combination، some institutions have come into existence، which are able to perform their research and educational duties properly. The present article uses the historical method، to study the origin of the aforesaid idea of combination، and then introduce an example of the successful implementation of this combination، which has established itself in the form of a university institution.

Multifaceted phenomena، issues and also prevention of reductionism have forced scholars to interdisciplinary studies. For these reasons the holy Quran has been taken into consideration nowadays. Researchers، because of the novelty of interdisciplinary studies، pay attention to them based on their impressions of interdisciplinary studies. This issue makes the coherent definition of interdicsiplinarity and the expression of its Quranic typologies necessary. In fact we could consider the Integration as the main criterion for achieving Intrerdisciplinary studies. Therefore we will three kinds of interdisciplinrity: multi-disciplinarity، interdisciplinarity and meta-disciplinarity. Each of these has various forms of which a system of these kinds we can touch to a more coherent interdisciplinary studies toward Holy Quran.

The aim of this research is survey of possibility Islamic Sociology Paradigm in recent situation in terms of lack of necessary agreement with acceptance of religious science among researchers، lack of philosophy of Islamic social sciences، lack of Islamic sociology and its scientific community and finally others necessary circumstances for constitution of this paradigm. Principal question in here is how much the Islamic Sociology Paradigm is possible in changing context of current humanities (with western foundation and approach) to desired humanities (with Islamic foundation and approach) with consideration of posterior and coincidental emergence of paradigm in history of science? Theoretical framework here is Kuhn’s theory in history and philosophy of science. Research method is documentary study in area of emergence of scientific paradigm via use of notation technique. Results show emergence of paradigm without critique and falsification current paradigms in coping with new needs and problems in scientific community has philosophic، logic and practical serious errors. In result، lack of acceptance of Islamic Sociology Paradigm as substitution paradigm among of scientific communities’ members in the world especially Islamic countries leads to impairments in thinking and faithful foundation of Islamic Sociology Paradigm.

The main goal of this study was Identification integrated curriculum model (within disciplines، across several disciplines and within and across learners) in humanities based on Fogarty’s view and its gap with expected statuses of students. Research method was descriptive and population was all the humanities students in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in the 93-92 academic year. The sample size was 216 students and selected through stratified sampling. Research tool was questionnaire that designed based on the Fogarty’s model. Results showed that: from students view، within disciplines (fragmented) model is dominated for the development and implementation of curriculum now. Students are expected integration within and across learners and there is significant difference between the existing and expected conditions in the three major models of integrating the humanities curriculum based on Fogarty’s view.

This article touches upon how virtual instruction، as an interdisciplinary window، might facilitate knowledge construction. In order to do so، an online educational platform and its capabilities are explored، and examples of collaboration are given. Then these examples are analyzed to figure out how online collaboration could set the stage for knowledge construction. Participants included a number of preservice teachers who took a mathematics education course which was offered blended. The participants were put into groups of 6-9، and were asked to solve and discuss mathematical questions as well as how to teach them to elementary school students. Grounded theory method was applied to make sense of the data، and Vygotsky’s socio-cultural theory of learning was used as a lens to look at the social environment. Findings show that knowledge construction is likely to happen in two forms، individual or social. When there is no reference to other postings or responses to an individual from any of the group members، individual knowledge construction is taking place. Conversely، when preservice teachers collaborate on an issue to help each other build knowledge of pedagogy and that of subject matter، knowledge construction is more social in nature. Moreover، the instructor’s role، and capabilities of the platform are amongst the factors affecting knowledge construction.