JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY
Year:2008 | Volume:14 | Issue:4|Papers Count:9

Deleuze (1925-1995) a poststructuralist and postmodernist philosopher has borrowed the notion of the rhizome from biology. As a symbol for unlimited growth through the multitude of its own transformations, rhizome is contrasted with a tree, as a linear and sequential, arborescent growths. Rhizomatic space with emphasis on becoming, nomadism, folding deteritorization, reteritorization and principles of connection and heterogeneity, multiplicity, asignfying rupture, cartography and decalcomania, decenteralization, anti- Dualism, anti-represetationalism presents troubles for the religious education especially in the domain of fundamentalist religious societies. Rhizomatic space challenges representation, hierarchical lines and discipline on which religious education is based. In fact, the present article involves an attempt to study problems and challenges of rhizomatic space for religious education processes.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of type of assessment (essay and multiple-choice) on students' approaches to studying and exam preparation strategies between students with high and low academic achievement.332 students with high and low academic achievement (based on their GPA with the cut of point 17 from 20) majoring in psychology and educational management from Shahed and Arak Islamic Azad Universities participated at this study.They all completed the ASSIST (Approaches and Study Skills of Students) questionnaire and a researcher made questionnaire about their exam preparation strategies at the beginning and end of the academic term, Results of MANCOVA (pretest scores used as covariates) revealed that essay examinations encouraged students employ deep studying approaches and deep preparation strategies and multiple-choice examinations made a tendency toward surface studying approaches and surface exam preparation strategies, There was a statistically significant interaction between essay type of assessment and high academic achievement and lead students to study more deeply compare with other forms of the mentioned variables.

The aim of this research was to explore the extent to which the educational policies adopted for the third economic development plan were carried out in education at Ahvaz local office of secondary education (ALOSE) during the third development plan (2000-2004). A qualitative methodology was used and data were collected via smi-structured interview (Interviews done with Education Local Authorities) and documents analysis. The results indicated that: 1) during the third development plan in ALOSE, a series of models of educational change such' as preplan change, evolutionary change, organizational cycle, political, social recognition and cultural change were taken into consideration; 2) the level of performance was significantly higher in the fifth year of the development plan compared to the first year with regards to reforms such as: Competition oriented reforms, financial oriented reforms, justice oriented reforms and quality and productivity oriented reforms.

this paper, aims to review the causes of supervision failure in Kurdistan's primary schools. Using a descriptive research model, the study analysed the views of 366 randomly selected teachers from all regional departments of education in the province. In order to collect data from the sample a questionnaire with 45 closed items and one open question were used. Findings indicate for structural and attitudinal reasons instructional supervision in the Kurdistan Province's primary schools has failed to achieve its goals.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the performance of councils of education in providing suitable conditions for people's supervision of educational programs which is examined through five questions. The population of this research is the members of education councils in provinces, cities and districts of education in years 1381-1382. Among them 41 members from provinces of Kozestan, Mazanderan, Azarbayjan Shargy, Kordestan, Kerman and Isfahan and 313 members of councils of cities and districts of mentioned provinces were selected through simple random sampling. Furthermore, all related documents and approved issues in education councils of 29 provinces of the country in the two years were gathered to analyze. In this project, three instruments including check lists for content analysis, interviews and questionnaires were used. The result of the project says that in general, councils of. education have had poor performance in providing the necessary conditions. for people's supervision of educational programs. These councils can use opportunities such as the existence of councils of parents and teachers in schools, the existence of representatives from people and governments in councils and the approved related law for increasing the supervision of people in education.

Sustainable development of each country is a function of its educational system. This system has a critical role in economic, social and political development. Increasing the level of productivity could lead to better performance of educational system. Teachers are the most important element of an educational system. They play key role in performance improvement; therefore increasing the level of their productivity could lead to better performance of educational system. This article tries to identify and rank the factors that help to increase the level of teachers' productivity. At the first step, by using the experts' opinions and Delphi technique, thirty nine factors that affect teachers' productivity are identified and classified into seven dimensions. Next, by using statistical methods and Topsis technique these factors were ranked. The findings of this ranking show that educational, economical & welfare factors are the most important dimensions that affect teachers' productivity.

Due to the special conditions of public libraries, especially after their reorganization under the Board of Trustees of the Public Libraries (BTPL), and the necessity for re-organization of and re-planning for libraries and librarians, it is necessary for managers of the BTPL to identify and illustrate the present status of libraries and librarians to be able to proceed with their planning. Benefiting the opportunity provided by a short term course for librarians of four provinces of Khuzestan, Booshehr, Fars and Kohgiluye in which the present authors were involved, a survey based on the Job Description Index (JDI) was devised and administered to assess the degree of job satisfaction among the target librarians in terms of: supervision, coworkers, payments and promotion as well as general job satisfaction.Results of the study revealed that all librarians, despite their dissatisfaction in regards with some aspects, especially payments and promotion, were all satisfied with their job as librarians. Running an ANOVA test with repeated measures indicated existence of no significant difference among the mentioned variables, except for payments. However, running the post-hoc test of Tukey’s HSD revealed that the difference lies between Khuzestan librarians and their colleagues in other 3 provinces. The data collected revealed no significant difference among other groups of librarians. Due to other disorders observed in relation with status of librarians in terms of their distribution age-wise, while suggesting the decision makers to review the librarians' payments and promotion schemes, it is suggested that decision makers plan and act in regard with recruit of younger librarians before the older librarians are retired, and allow some time for them to transfer their knowledge and methods of job administration and techniques to younger ones.