Identifying and Ranking the Challenges of Geography Education at Farhangian University (After First Course Graduation)

The growth and development of every society and its parts is owed to planning, examining existing problems and challenges, and providing solutions to meet the new needs that created by economic, social, and technological changes.  Meanwhile, educational systems, especially higher education, in order to maintain survival and achieve their goals quickly and easily, need to review the current situation and identify potential challenges. The purpose of this study is to identify and rank the most important challenges in the field of geography education at Farhangian University. The research is applied in terms of purpose and has been done by survey method. The research population consisted of faculty members / teachers and students of Farhangian University in Tehran and Alborz provinces, which were examined in two stages: judgment and as a whole. The research tool was a researcher-made interview and a questionnaire. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were confirmed by formal validity method and Cronbach's alpha calculation. The research results showed the challenges in the field of geography education in four dimensions: educational, research, cultural and extracurricular, and structural-administrative dimension and the ranking of challenges from the point of view of faculty members / teachers and students showed that structural-administrative, educational, research, and cultural and extracurricular challenges were the most important challenges in the point of view of students, and from the point of view of faculty members/ teachers, the challenges of structural-administrative, research, educational, and cultural dimensions and extracurricular activities were the most important challenges in geography education, respectively.