Chamran Ghanbaru; Manijeh Zakariaei; Javad Naseriyan
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Purpose: Entrepreneurial attitudes in the contents of elementary textbooks play an important role in improving students' entrepreneurial attitudes. As a result, the aim of this research was identifying the effective challenges and indicators in entrepreneurial attitudes in the contents of elementary ...
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Purpose: Entrepreneurial attitudes in the contents of elementary textbooks play an important role in improving students' entrepreneurial attitudes. As a result, the aim of this research was identifying the effective challenges and indicators in entrepreneurial attitudes in the contents of elementary textbooks.
Methodology: The present research in terms of time was cross-sectional, in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was survey from type of analytical. The research population was all primary school teachers in Takab city in the academic years of 2020-21 with number 362 people, which number of 127 people of them based on Cochran's formula were selected by stratified random sampling method based on gender. The research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire of effective challenges and indicators in entrepreneurial attitudes in the contents of elementary textbooks whose validity was confirmed by academic experts and its reliability by Cronbach's alpha method for effective challenges in entrepreneurial attitudes was obtained 0.83 and for effective indicators in entrepreneurial attitudes was obtained 0.92. Data were analyzed by exploratory factor analysis in SPSS software version 24.
Findings: Findings showed that the effective challenges in entrepreneurial attitudes in the contents of elementary textbooks included eight factors of inattention to entrepreneurship, theorizing of concepts, lack of education, voluntary activities, lack of educational space and context, lack of support of officials, lack of evaluation and teacher skills and these factors could explain 90.54% of the variance of the effective challenges in entrepreneurial attitudes. Also, the effective indicators in entrepreneurial attitudes in the contents of elementary textbooks included seven factors of self-efficacy, participation and interaction, talent identification, operationalization and acquisition of skills, bedding and creating opportunities, desire and confidence to success and flexibility of officials and these factors could explain 93.20% of the variance of the effective indicators in entrepreneurial attitudes.
Conclusion: The results showed eight effective challenges and seven effective indicators in entrepreneurial attitudes in the contents of elementary textbooks. Therefore, the curriculum experts and planners according to them can take an effective step to improve entrepreneurial attitudes in the contents of textbooks.
Zeinab Emamdost; Negin Jabbari; Kiumars Niazazari
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Purpose: The present research aimed to provide a model of school managers' perception from the challenges of professional ethics in modern society.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was mixed (qualitative and quantitative). The research population ...
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Purpose: The present research aimed to provide a model of school managers' perception from the challenges of professional ethics in modern society.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was mixed (qualitative and quantitative). The research population was in the qualitative part was education experts of Gorgan city with history of management and policy making which according to the principle of theoretical saturation number of 20 people were selected by purposive sampling method and in the quantitative part was the managers and deputies of the first and second period of high school of Gorgan city in the academic years of 2018-19 with number of 256 people which according to the Cochran's formula, 153 people were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. To collect data were used from semi-structured interview and researcher-made questionnaire of managers' perception from the challenges of professional ethics that the validity of the managers' perception questionnaire with the method of average variance extracted 0.61 and its reliability obtained by Cronbach's alpha method and combination 0.94 and 0.87 respectively and validity of the challenges of professional ethics questionnaire was confirmed by exploratory factor analysis and average variance extracted and its reliability obtained by Cronbach's alpha method and combination of total and all factors higher than 0.60 and 0.70 respectively. Data were analyzed by methods of open, axial and selective coding and structural equation modeling in SPSS-22 and LISREL-8.8 software.Findings: The findings of the qualitative section showed that the challenges of professional ethics had 164 basic concepts, 38 open codes, 19 central codes and 9 elective codes. Knowledge (including three codes of up-to-dateness, comparative studies and knowledge dissemination), leadership (including two codes of paternalistic view and source of motivation), committed responsibility (including two codes of work commitment and efficiency), competitiveness (including two codes of competition law and advantage Competitive), development-oriented (including two codes of efficient rules of the Minister of Socio-Cultural Construction), constructive authoritarianism (including two codes of executive determination and constructive interaction) and futurism (including two codes of program-oriented and needs assessment). Quantitative findings showed that managers' perceptions had a direct and significant effect on professional ethics challenges and professional ethics challenges on all nine factors (P <0.05).Conclusion: According to the results, planners and officials to coping the challenges of professional ethics can provide the ground to improve the orbital legitimacy, orbital ethics, orbital scientism, leadership nature, commitment responsibility, competitiveness, development-oriented, constructive authoritarianism and foresight.
