CURRICULUM PLANNING KNOWLEDGE & RESEARCH IN EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES
Year:2021 | Volume:18 | Issue:41 (68)|Papers Count:12

This study was conducted to design creative teaching pattern based on Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari’ s epistemological components by using conceptual and inference methodologies & studying related documents. Based on conceptual analysis, the epistemological components of Deleuze and Guattari include connection and heterogeneity, plurality, asignfying rupture, folding and immanence. Accordingly, the creative teaching model using Deleuze and Guattari’ s epistemology in the form of elements such as; teacher as a guide, facilitator, teammate and change agent, student as a researcher, nomd, creative, participatory, critique; goals which are affected by horizontal and divergent thinking; learning based on active and participatory models, apprenticeship, service learning; learning activities based on generative and creative thinking; contents based on pluralism features based on interdisciplinary of interference and interconnectedness of disciplines has been designed.

The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of Faculty members of Payame Noor University of Fars Province for academic well-being. The research method was Husser phenomenology. Participants of the study consisted of 20 faculty members of Fars province Payame Noor Universities in the field of humanities, basic sciences and engineering, which were selected by a purposive sampling approach and criterion sampling method (Due to the theoretical saturation approach and no new information was obtained in our 18th interview, the interview was stopped in the 20th case. )The data collection method of research was semi-structured interview. The credibility and (The synchronization method was used and tried to create this credibility by collecting sufficient data from multiple sources) trustability criteria were used to validate the data (This criterion actually refers to the stability of the results in different times and conditions and is equivalent to the reliability of quantitative research). Using the thematic analysis method, first the initial codes were extracted and then in the network of basic, organizing and global themes, academic well-being experiences were presented. The research findings showed that from the combination and integration of initial codes (student’ s interest in education, research in the field of scientific gap, Creating a sense of trust in students, … ) of increasing academic well-being in 4 organizing themes, including 1). Based on the obtained findings, it can be realized that by developing the components of increasing academic well-being and preventing the occurrence of reducing components, it can be expected that the faculty members of Payame Noor University will perform their job responsibilities with the highest level of effectiveness and efficiency.

The aim of this study was to validate the optimal pattern of enrollment of foreign students in Islamic Azad University. Which is applied in terms of purpose and exploratory in terms of research method, in the qualitative stage the method of grand theory and content analysis was used and in the quantitative stage the survey method was used. In the research section, the documents of 50 researches were studied. In the qualitative stage, in-depth interviews were conducted with 12 experts. The statistical population in the research was the faculty members. were chosen. The required information was collected in the qualitative stage using semi-structured interviews based on data theory and in the quantitative stage was collected and analyzed using a designed questionnaire. The results showed that in explaining the positive and negative positions, the quantitative and qualitative development of the university, the reform of university functions, globalization, the preference of political goals to educational goals were effective. In explaining the factors affecting acceptance, Structures, manpower and goals were effective. In explaining the factors of attracting foreign students, support programs, symbolic performance and regulatory performance were effective. In explaining the fields of admission with comparative advantage of foreign students, backgrounds, behaviors and structures were obtained. In explaining the factors facilitating the process of attracting foreign students, competitive advantage, university talent was obtained. Pedagogically, politically and economically.

This study aims to analytical-documentary method to identify the inadequacies and challenges of the critical curriculum of Henry Giroux from the perspective of the philosophical foundations of Islamic education. The research was qualitative in terms of the nature of the data and in terms of the type of analytical-documentary research method. The research sample in Giro's critical curriculum, books and articles published by Giroux during the years 1979 to 2018 and in the foundations of Islamic education were original researches in this field that were purposefully selected and analyzed by qualitative content analysis method. In this research, Giroux most important ideas in the essential elements of the curriculum, including goals (raising a democratic and Liberating citizen, hearing and paying attention to other voices, abandoning elitism and paying attention to public culture, eliminating racial discrimination and defending the rights of the oppressed, and Different groups of society, creation of a democratic and egalitarian society), content (attention to social and cultural conditions, relativity of knowledge and knowledge, reliance on social values, consideration of contexts, institutions and social structures), teaching-learning methods (discourse-oriented) and Evaluation (observation, interview, reporting, research, self-evaluation, narration) was analyzed. Despite the strengths of Giroux critical curriculum, including the emphasis on educational justice and attention to marginalized groups, in this perspective, there are also inconsistencies and challenges that are criticized in the system of philosophy of Islamic education. One of these criticisms can be the lack of goals based on metaphysical assumptions, the neglect of different areas of education in targeting (high emphasis on political goals), relativism in content, extreme pluralism in content (lack of attention to unity Slowness in the instruments of cognition, pure discourse in teaching methods, ignoring teacher's authoritarianism in teaching, the difficulty of interpreting the results in the evaluation.

The purpose of this paper is to extracting the main characteristics of training curriculum for Employability of senior school Students. A qualitative design with descriptive phenomenology approach was selected to carry out the research. Qualitative research participants are all experts in the field of curriculum planning and skills training. The criterion based sampling method applied in this study and 14 people were involved based on the theoretical saturation as sample size. Interview data were collected through semi-structured. The reliability of the interviews was obtained through Credibility, Transferability, Dependability and Confirm ability. The results of the analysis of the interviews identified 93 basic themes in 4 organizing themes, which are gathered around the comprehensive theme of the training curriculum for the employability of high school students. The research findings identified the components of the skills training program for employability in the form of objective elements (cognitive, emotional and skill), content, teaching and learning strategies and evaluation.

One of the most important issues in higher education curriculum planning is identifying uncertainties. It assists to make better decisions in order to adapt to changing worlds. Therefore, the present study was conducted to provide a proposed model for the relationship between uncertainties in areas related to higher education curriculum via qualitative method. In this research, the method of qualitative content analysis of inductive analysis with data coding system was used, so that the process of referring to the data, summarizing them and finally reaching the concepts related to the research topic (identifying higher school curriculum uncertainties) was done. Data analysis was performed based on open coding and axial coding. The scope of this research includes articles and books related to the higher education curriculum that were published between 2000 and 2020. The sample consisted of 48 articles and 8 books that were selected using purposive sampling method. Findings were categorized with 71 concepts into 28 sub-categories and 13 main categories. The research findings indicate the existence of a network of uncertainties in the higher education curriculum. Finally, the proposed model of the relationship between uncertainties in areas related to the higher education curriculum was presented.

The aim of this study was to develop and validation of a self-directed learning training package and to determine its effectiveness on academic enthusiasm and academic vitality. The present study is of combination type in the form of an exploratory design (at first the qualitative method and then the quantitative method. ( To identify the components of self-direction in this research, the qualitative method of content analysis has been used. Content analysis is a method for understanding the analysis and reporting of current patterns in qualitative data. The method used in the quantitative part of the reaserch is semi-experimental with pre-test, post-test, 3-month follow-up and the control group. Population included all male freshman students of Esfahan farhangian university of Shahid Bahonar in the academic year of 1395-1396, (N= 275) in different fields. Of these, 36 volunteered to participate in the training course on announced call, which were assigned into two groups of experimental and control (18 in each groups) by simple random sampling method. The research instruments comprised of an educational package based on self-directed learning components, Hossein Chari and Dehghanizadeh's (1391) Academic Vitality Questionnaire and Fredericks et al. 's (2007) Academic Enthusiasm Questionnaire. To analyze the data, Multivariate analysis of covariance was utilized and the results showed that the difference between the mean scores in all variables of the study including academic enthusiasm and its dimensions and academic vitality in the experimental and control groups in the post-test and follow-up stages was significant. (P <0. 001). The effect size of the educational package on increasing academic enthusiasm was 54. 5% and 44. 4%in the post-test and follow-up respectively. Also, the effect of this package on increasing academic enthusiasm in the post-test was equal to 48. 3% and in the follow-up was equal to 33%.

The aim of this research was investigating understanding of Tehran’ s second elementary school students of the fraction concept (part-whole subconstruct) based on APOS and SOLO theories. This study’ s method was descriptive-survey method, its statistical population was Tehran’ s second elementary school students in the academic year 1397-1398 and its sample was 598 people of the statistical population that selected by multistage sampling method. A test with an unusual task used for collecting data. The content validity of the research tools were confirmed by experts and scholars of mathematics education, and the reliability of the research tools was obtained based on Cronbach's alpha of 0. 7. Results of this study showed that students have a limited understanding of fraction’ s concept and they have common misconceptions. The most common misconceptions found include: (1) Disregarding the requirement of equal parts in part-whole subconstruct; 2-Understanding fraction in part-whole subconstruct as the part-to-part ratio & 3-Using approximate partitioning to determine the exact fraction of the specified part. Analyzing the responses based on the APOS theory also revealed students did not have ability to use this concept in dealing with unusual situations. In analyzing the responses based on the Solo model, more than 60% of the responses were in the multistructural level. The suggestions of this research are not to over-emphasize the part-whole subconstruct, creating equal opportunities for developing other subconstructs of fraction and emphasizing on conceptual learning of procedures and algorithms relative to fraction concept in content and opportunities presented to students.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the importance, patterns and methods of educating and empowering preschool children against social deviances, which has been done using a qualitative research approach and synthesis research method. The research field includes 94 internal articles from 1999 to 2019 with keywords such as Children's Empowerment, Preschool Education Importance, Injuries and Social Deviations, Preschool Curriculum, Life Skills and Social Skills, and 94 foreign articles from 1999 to 2019 which, after screening, 71 cases were selected as a research sample using purposive method. The results show that the necessity to empower children against social deviances can be classified into 10 categories: Emotional and personality development and mental health increasing, behavioral disorders reduction and individual and social adjustment increasing, self-confidence and individual independence increasing, individual abilities and creativity growth, individual, communication and social skills development, moral and educational necessity, development Child self-care, life skills and social relationships development and increase participation, educational and cultural necessities and economic necessities. Regarding the models and methods of individual and personality empowerment, two general models have been proposed by theorists: "children's personal and personality empowerment increasing " and " life skills and social skills improvement ". for the first model "training and strengthening self-awareness and self-knowing" "Psychological children empowerment and teaching religious beliefs and values" and for the second model, methods of "teaching life skills and teaching social skills" have been proposed.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of cognitive Load and augmented reality technology methods on the learning-retention of 12th grade students of experimental sciences field in the mathematics 3 course in the academic year of 2018-2019. The research method is quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test with three groups: one control group and two experimental groups. The statistical population of the study consisted of all 12th grade students of experimental sciences field of Gorgan city that were 726 students. Mustafa Khomeini high school was selected by cluster sampling method from 22 high schools of Gorgan as the sample. Then, from the 12th grade students of this school, the experimental sciences field was selected which consisted of 3 classes with 90 students. Among these students, those students who had average above 17, and who were discipline-desirable were selected. Finally, according to the criteria set, 60 students were selected as research sample. The research instrument consisted of a 30-questions researcher-made test with different levels of Bloom's cognitive domain. The coefficient of distinction and difficulty of each question was reported and was desirable. The results showed that cognitive Load and augmented reality technology methods have a positive and significant effect on students' learning and retention. And augmented reality-based teaching methods have a greater impact on students' learning and retention than other cognitive-based teaching methods and traditional methods.

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the flipped teaching method on the academic resilience of students in the lesson of humankind and the environment in the academic year of 2019-2020. This research is quasi-experimental and applied in terms of purpose. The statistical population of the study included female high school students in District 2 of Shahr-e-Rey. First, one of the schools in the district 2 of Rey was selected by available sampling method and 60 high schools 11th-grade students were replaced by simple random sampling in two classes of 30 people as the experimental group and the other as the control group. To collect data, the standard questionnaire of Samuels (2004), which was standardized by SoltaniNejad and his colleagues in 2012, was used as a pre-test and post-test. After confirming the face and content validity of the instrument by professors in the field of educational sciences, its reliability was calculated through Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0. 81. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics such as center orientation indices and dispersion indices and inferential statistics of the Levin test were used to investigate the assumption of variance homogeneity and multivariate analysis of covariance and univariate and ETA test using Spss24 software. The results showed that flipped teaching has a positive effect improves the academic resilience of 11th-grade female students. Finally, it is suggested that principals facilitate teachers' participation in workshops on new teaching strategies so that teachers can benefit from new teaching approaches, including filliped teaching in the classroom.

The aim of this study is to compare the effectiveness of collaborative teaching method with exploratory teaching method on students' creativity. The statistical population of the present study included all female students in the fifth grade of elementary school in Kaboudar Ahang. For this purpose, 40 students from the mentioned community, in two classrooms, were selected as experimental groups one and two. The research method was semi-experimental and the pretest-posttest design was with experimental groups one and two. The instrument used by the researcher in this study was Torrance Creative Thinking Test (Form A). The results were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics and the comparison of pre-test and post-test results in both groups showed that the teaching method of cooperation and exploration method has significantly improved both groups and the comparison of the two methods with each other showed The collaborative method compared to the exploratory method has a significant effect on students' creativity in science lessons.