نشریه مطالعات برنامه درسی آموزش عالی
پیاپی 28 (پاییز و زمستان 1402)

This research was carried out with the aim of identifying the challenges of well-being among faculty members for Nil, the curriculum of professional training of professors of Payam Noor Fars University in the form of an applied-developmental research with blending. In the first phase, using the qualitative method of theme analysis, the challenges of academic well-being were identified in order to develop a curriculum for the professional excellence of professors. The participation of faculty members of Payam Noor University of Fars province was continued with a purposeful method including the sampling process until reaching theoretical saturation (20 interviews). A semi-structured interview and a questionnaire were used to gather the views of the respondents. The research studies indicated that well-being could be examined in the form of increasing challenges in the four axes of challenges related to teaching, research, counseling and social evaluation. Among the examined challenges, the professor's personal interest in teaching and research, students' academic progress, creating a sense of confidence in students, and the existence of suitable conditions and facilities had the highest priority.

Considering the necessity of changes in the teacher training curricula and the competent and professional teacher training system, the purpose of this research was to clarify the general framework of teachers' competencies with a systematic study. In addition, it aimed to present a meta-combination of theoretical models and studies conducted in this field with a focus It is based on the professional qualifications of teachers and the presentation of its perceptual model for the purpose of reforming and re-designing the teacher training curriculum. The approach used in this qualitative research was a synthesis type of research, which was conducted with the help of the meta-combination strategy and was practical in terms of the goal. The statistical population of the research included all the books (20), articles (156), theses (16) and numerous studies in the period of time (1980-2023) in the field of professional qualifications of teachers inside and outside Iran available in reliable sources. The corpus sample of the research included above 68 titles, based on thematic relevance and theoretical saturation of the data, the research data was selected in a purposeful way with the method of content analysis (qualitative) of the studied documents, collecting and coding and classifying the information of 24 frequently identified components and 94 concepts. Finally, the main categories and topics were extracted. Based on the analysis of the inductive and composite content of the categories, the findings of the research showed that the pattern involves 5 main categories overseeing the dimensions of competence and 10 basic categories overseeing the elements of competence and 25 sub-categories overseeing the types of competence that draw the perceptual framework of curriculum competence. And the relevant implications for redesigning the teacher training curriculum could be separated from it.

The present study aimed to assess psychology textbooks in Iranian higher education curriculum, focusing on learning styles and their adaption to teaching methods. Using qualitative content analysis, 10 Persian-authored and translated books were examined after consulting university professors and publishers. The findings revealed 11 learning styles in educational psychology textbooks, with the impulsive/reflective style having the highest frequency at 16.3% and the Layered model having the lowest frequency at 1.3%. Additionally, 60% of authors showed a positive stance on aligning teaching methods with learning styles, while 20% had no clear position and 20% were neutral. According to the findings, only 30% of textbooks addressed criticisms of learning styles theories and the lack of evidence supporting the impact of aligning teaching methods with learning styles on academic performance. The results indicated that despite the lack of sufficient research evidence, Iranian authors generally support adapting teaching methods with learning styles and encourage their implementation.

The aim of the current research was to examine the curriculum of the field of curriculum planning of Shahid Madani University of Azerbaijan in empowering students in terms of technical, executive, knowledge and attitudinal skills. The research design was practical in terms of purpose, descriptive survey in terms of nature, and quantitative in terms of approach. The statistical population of the present study included 122 students of curriculum planning courses in the master's course of Shahid Madani University of Azerbaijan in the last seven years the formal and content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts. The reliability of the whole questionnaire was estimated based on Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.978. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data, and a sample t-tech test was used to answer the research questions. The results showed that the average curriculum of curriculum planning in empowering students was equal to 3.40. Also, the results revealed that there is a significant difference at the significance level of 0.05 between the curriculum average in empowering students in terms of technical, executive, knowledge and attitude skills with a desirable average (4) and the average obtained in all four skills is less.

The European medical society no longer believes in the independence of experimental sciences from the humanities. This idea began with Bacon's empiricism and Descartes' dualism, and made medical education away from a comprehensive view of man and the teaching humanities to medical students is an undeniable necessity. Paying attention to the necessity of this connection can once again become the origin of scientific production and the cooperation of the universities of the Ministry of Science and Health in the educational planning of medical humanities by using the background of medical wisdom for the purpose of explaining the position of medicine, creating educational-research institutions, and paying attention to interdisciplinary and medical humanities curriculum can be a scientific and intellectual rise in the incorporation of humanities medical education. Through library research the relationship between humanities and medical knowledge of western thinkers and the thought and life of doctors of Iranian-Islamic culture was investigated to highlight the necessity of the fundamental connection of humanities and medical sciences curriculum

The present study was conducted with the aim of introducing the effective curriculum model of laboratory courses of technical and engineering fields in higher education based on the Grounded theory, including open coding, axial coding and selective coding. The research method is applied in terms of purpose, qualitative in terms of data type and Grounded Theory in terms of nature and type of data study. The study population consists of all experts in the field of absorption. The open coding phase was done by studying national and international research literature as well as document mining and the results were categorized in selective coding. Then, the findings were evaluated with the methods of interviews with experts, Delphi technique, and holding a brainstorming session, and a model including 80 items, 21 indicators, 10 components, and 5 dimensions of logic was developed with the opinion of research experts. In this research, the dimensions: students' expectations, pre-laboratory knowledge, implementation cycle, evaluation and final goals were proposed for the curriculum of laboratory courses in technical and engineering fields.

The aim of this study was investigating the effects of the quality of the undergraduate skill-based curriculum and psychological self-determination on the entrepreneurial intention of students, with regard to the mediating role of entrepreneurial inspiration and creativity. This research was applied and was conducted based on structural equation modeling. The research sample included 341 undergraduate students of Urmia University who were selected using stratified random sampling. Linan and Chen's entrepreneurial intention questionnaires, Mohammad Shafi, et al. scale for the curriculum quality, Gagné basic psychological needs satisfaction scale in examining self-determination, Souitaris, Zerbinati & Al-Laham questionnaire in entrepreneurial inspiration and DiLiello & Houghton questionnaire in entrepreneurial creativity and Zampetakis & Moustakis questionnaire in individual, family and academic creativity were used. The reliability and validity of the questionnaires were confirmed. The results indicated that the quality of the curriculum could not have a direct effect on the entrepreneurial intention. Self-determination had a positive relationship with entrepreneurial intention, and entrepreneurial inspiration and creativity had a mediating role in this relationship. Therefore, the skill-oriented curriculum of universities can be effective along with the knowledge of the individual and psychological foundations of entrepreneurship and the potential talents of students, with the aim of developing their cognitive and emotional motivations in increasing entrepreneurial intention.

The aim of the current research was to present a curriculum model for higher education in knowledge-based cities. In terms of method, this research was considered as applied and of the foundation data type, the data for this study were collected from the articles published in reliable scientific databases. The information obtained after extraction was classified and coded, and the curriculum model based on the culture of Iranian society was extracted by coding the information, the coding process continued until it reached the saturation stage, and three stages of open coding, central coding and selective coding were performed. Then, a conceptual model was extracted from relevant studies. The results of the research showed that in presenting the curriculum model of a knowledge city, it can help to develop the role of higher education, education, production and dissemination of knowledge, localization of knowledge and the transformation of knowledge and technology into products, and this mission requires the preparation of infrastructures such as compilation of protective laws and regulations, intellectual property rights and communication and information infrastructures.

The compulsory subject under the title "Geotourism with an Emphasis on Iran" is defined in the geography education curriculum of Teacher Training University, for which the existential philosophy and the presented headings are worthy of consideration. But the professors of this field have been unable to develop and present it and student teachers have also failed to understand its content deeply. To investigate this issue, a qualitative research method was used in the form of a comparative comparison, and the titles and headings presented for this course with the sources mentioned for it in the undergraduate curriculum of geography education of Teacher Training University and, undergraduate curricula of geology and geography fields of other universities have been compared. The obtained results confirmed the existence of mentioned contradiction. It is suggested that instead of this subject, should be replaced with "Tourism geography with an emphasis on the implementation of student tours", which is in line with the goals and structure of the geography education curriculum at Teacher Training University.

University mathematics in Iran is facing crisis in terms of the quality and quantity of students since 2011 and one of the main causes’ is known as unemployment of its graduates. In the meanwhile, virtual education during the pandemic changed the expectations and the learning style of students. Digital technology and AI changed the job market as well and required a workforce equipped with new knowledge and skills. By reviewing the related literature, the integrative approach to STEM education was identified to encounter the above crisis. According to the research purpose, we first studied the evolution of these disciplines in the USA as home to STEM education. We then reviewed all accessible documents taking the research synthesis approach and used qualitative content analysis. The results showed that to prepare graduates for new job market that is highly competitive and unstable, four faculties should cooperate and collaborate to revise their programs and develop innovative and flexible curriculum with different emphasis considering the diversity of various fields. In addition, universities must give financial support to STEM departments to focus on relevant research towards developing new curriculum for the improvement of mathematics and other STEM disciplines.

This research has been done with the aim of providing a curriculum model to fulfill the mission of the fourth-generation university with a qualitative approach and basic method. The sample for the study was selected based on the criterion sampling method and based on the rule of reaching the saturation limit in qualitative research, with the presence of 13 experts in the field of higher education curriculum. The research tool was a semi-structured interview. The coding method was used to analyze the data and the validity of the data was determined through the review of the members and the external auditor. The results showed that the philosophical foundations of the curriculum model are Islamic realism, pragmatism, neo-pragmatism and phenomenology, the main theory supporting social reconstruction and selective theories included special competencies, complexity, neo-conceptualism and progressivism. Following these findings, a total of 140 category were extracted for the curriculum elements, CVR was used to determine the validity of the model and its rate was calculated as 93.92 percent. In general, it can be said that in order to revise the curricula in order to answer and address the obvious and hidden problems of the society, presenting a curriculum model based on social responsibility can be a way forward.

The purpose of this study was to identify the behavioral components related to effective teaching from the students' point of view. For this purpose, critical incident technique has been used as a research method. The location of the research was Tehran and the participants of the research included 50 students of educational sciences of Tehran state universities who were selected through purposeful sampling and random sampling method. Based on the analysis of research findings, 7 main behavioral components of effective teaching were identified, which included choosing a teaching and training strategy, job discipline, fairness and justice, communication and interaction with students, preparation and having a lesson plan, dedication Time to students outside the classroom and classroom management and control. Finally, it is recommended that paying attention to these behavioral components and using them in the development and improvement of teachers' competencies, evaluation of teaching effectiveness, recruitment and hiring of uuniversity professors will be a way forward.