An Explanation of the Future Curricula toward Realizing the Visions and Missions of Iranian Higher Education in Horizon of 2025

The purpose of this study is to clarify the goal and content of future curricula of Iranian higher education based on the visions and missions defined for the country’s higher education in the horizon of 2025. The present study is conducted through a combined exploratory method and the statistical population includes upstream resources, experts in the field of higher education, as well as faculty members and PhD students of Isfahan University in the academic year of 2015-2016. In the qualitative stage, the purposeful sampling method and in the quantitative phase, appropriate stratified sampling method is employed. The data are collected through qualitative content analysis of upstream resources, semi-structured interviews and questionnaires. The findings from the analysis of the qualitative content of upstream resources showed that directions that have provided upstream resources to science and technology as a vision and mission have been comprehensive and with consideration of national development, and can also be reviewed and analyzed in three categories: education, research and service. The results of the interviews also revealed that focusing on the society should be the most important issue in the development of the goal and content of the curriculum of higher education. The results of interviews regarding the prioritization of curriculum goals and contents indicated that "citizenship rights education" and "attending to the cultural needs" are identified the priorities for goals and contents, respectively. Finally, it can be concluded that future curricula of Iranian higher education would be probably more society-oriented.