Keyvan Kaveh; Taghi AghaHosseini; Mahboubeh Sadat Fadavi
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Purpose: Today, the importance of knowledge and its production is not hidden from anyone and universities are considered as the main axis of its production. Knowledge production, like all other productions, has challenges and disadvantages that need to be studied. Therefore, the main purpose of this ...
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Purpose: Today, the importance of knowledge and its production is not hidden from anyone and universities are considered as the main axis of its production. Knowledge production, like all other productions, has challenges and disadvantages that need to be studied. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to identify the components of pathology of knowledge production in Islamic Azad University.Methodology: This study was applied in terms of purpose and qualitative in terms of implementation method. Participants in the study included academic experts of the Islamic Azad University of Isfahan in the academic year 2020-21. Based on the theoretical saturation method, 22 people were selected by purposive samplingThe research tool was semi-structured interviews. To validate the findings, two methods of content validity were used by 4 experts outside the research and 2 experts inside the research. Also, for reliability, the coding agreement method was used, which resulted in 0.86. For data analysis, open, axial and selective coding method was used using thematic analysis method with Maxqda18 softwareFindings: Findings showed that 86 open codes, 9 central codes and three selected codes for knowledge production pathology were identified in Islamic Azad University; So that the selected codes include the harms of the university system (policy makers, stakeholders); There were structural damage (higher education curriculum, research structure, support structure, dependent structure) and economic, cultural and social damage (cultural, social, economic).Conclusion: Based on the findings, it can be concluded that knowledge production in Islamic Azad University has challenges in three areas (Academic, structural and cultural injuries) that in order to improve the quantity and quality of knowledge production, the laws related to science and science should be reviewed as well as scientific promotion of professors and students.
Sousan Rasouli; Jafar Barghi Moghaddam; Mohammadrahim Najafzadeh; Hamid Janani
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Purpose: The nature of human life cannot be separated from moral and value issues, as their relationship and impact on life has always been inevitable. Therefore, the aim of this study was to provide a model of ethical decision-making in physical education teachers in East Azerbaijan province based on ...
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Purpose: The nature of human life cannot be separated from moral and value issues, as their relationship and impact on life has always been inevitable. Therefore, the aim of this study was to provide a model of ethical decision-making in physical education teachers in East Azerbaijan province based on social values.Methodology: The present study was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlational in terms of implementation method. The statistical population included the physical education teachers of East Azerbaijan province in the academic year 2020-21 in the number of 1312 people. The sample size was determined by Krejcie and Morgan table 339 people and were selected by cluster-random sampling method. The research instruments included Kasol (2003) Ethical Decision Making Questionnaire and Rokic (2010) Modified Social Values Questionnaire. For the validity of the instrument from the point of view of experts and their reliability, Cronbach's alpha method was 0.84 and 0.89, respectively. Descriptive statistics with Spss24 software and inferential structural equation modeling method in Spss24 and Amos26 software were used to analyze the data.Findings: The results showed that social values had a positive and significant effect on the moral decision making of physical education teachers. Also, moral, national and political components, religious values, legal values and cultural values had a significant effect on moral decision making (p <0.05) and only the component of economic values had no significant effect on moral decision making.Conclusion: The results showed that social values influenced moral decisions, therefore, in the physical education curriculum, ethical issues related to social values can be given more attention.
