Psychology
Kamalaldin Yarali; Tayebeh Tajari; Maryam Safari
Abstract
Purpose: Higher education through entrepreneurial teaching can create a competitive advantage for itself. Therefore, the aim of this study was designing an entrepreneurial teaching pattern in Iran's higher education.Methodology: The current research in terms of its purpose was applied and in terms of ...
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Purpose: Higher education through entrepreneurial teaching can create a competitive advantage for itself. Therefore, the aim of this study was designing an entrepreneurial teaching pattern in Iran's higher education.Methodology: The current research in terms of its purpose was applied and in terms of its purpose implementation method was descriptive from type of survey. The current research population includes six groups of business startups and establishment of knowledge-based companies, cooperation with entrepreneurial intermediary institutions, entrepreneurship education and teaching, authoring articles, books and guidance or counseling of dissertations and thesis in the field of entrepreneurship, specialist of curriculum and managers of planning higher education in Iranian universities in the academic years of 2020-21. The sample size based on the table of Krejcie and Morgan table was determined 322 people, who this number were selected by simple random sampling method. The instrument of the current research was the researcher-made questionnaire of entrepreneurship teaching in Iran's higher education with 214 items, that whose face and content validity was confirmed by the opinion of experts and its reliability with using combined and Cronbach's alpha methods was obtained above 0.70. The data of this study were analyzed with the methods of exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling in SPSS and Lisrel software.Findings: The findings of the present study indicated that entrepreneurial teaching in Iran's higher education had 214 concepts in 13 components and 6 categories. The category of causal conditions includes the components of the need to face transformations and necessity of creating capabilities (33 concepts), the category of background conditions includes the component of the internal environment or variables (36 concepts), the category of intervening conditions includes the components of the effective professors, universal support and protection and environmental barriers (28 concepts) ), the core category includes the component of entrepreneurial teaching (39 concepts), category of strategies includes the components of the improving the ability of professors, the use of new methods, interaction and rich learning environment (53 concepts), and the category of consequences includes the components of the changing values in higher education and economic dynamics of society (25 concepts); So that the factor load of all components was higher than 0.50, the average variance extracted was higher than 0.60, and the Cronbach and combined reliability of all of them was higher than 0.70. Also, the entrepreneurial teaching pattern in Iran's higher education had a good fit and in this pattern, the category of causal conditions had a direct and significant effect on the core category, the categories of contextual conditions, intervening conditions and core conditions d a direct and significant effect on the category of strategies, and the category of strategies had a direct and significant effect on the category of consequences (P<0.001).Conclusion: The designed pattern in the present research about entrepreneurial teaching in Iran's higher education can be used by curriculum experts and planners, and they based on the results of this study can conduct to entrepreneurial teaching in higher education.
Psychology
Kamalaldin Yarali; Tayebeh Tajari; Maryam Safari
Abstract
Purpose: Paying attention to entrepreneurial teaching is very important in curriculum elements, and accordingly, the purpose of this study was to analyzing the curriculum elements of entrepreneurial teaching in the field of humanities sciences in Iran's higher education.Methodology: This study in terms ...
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Purpose: Paying attention to entrepreneurial teaching is very important in curriculum elements, and accordingly, the purpose of this study was to analyzing the curriculum elements of entrepreneurial teaching in the field of humanities sciences in Iran's higher education.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of execution method was qualitative. The population of this study includes six groups of business startups and establishment of knowledge-based companies, cooperation with entrepreneurial intermediary institutions, entrepreneurship education and teaching, authoring articles, books and guidance or counseling of dissertations and thesis in the field of entrepreneurship, specialist of curriculum and managers of planning higher education in Iranian universities in the academic years of 2020-21. The samples were selected according to the principle of theoretical saturation and with the purposeful sampling method, which their number was 25 people. The tool of the current research was a semi-structured interview which whose validity and reliability were checked and confirmed. The data were analyzed by the coding method based on the grounded theory in MAXQDA software.Findings: The findings of the present research showed that the curriculum elements of entrepreneurial teaching in the field of humanities sciences in Iran's higher education had 216 concepts in 47 components and 6 categories. The category of causal conditions includes 8 components and 33 concepts, the category of background conditions includes 8 components and 36 concepts, the category of intervening conditions includes 9 components and 28 concepts, the core category includes 5 components and 39 concepts, the category of strategies includes 12 components and 54 concepts, and the category of consequences includes 5 components and 26 concepts.Conclusion: Based on the findings of this study, experts and planners curriculum can take an effective step towards improving the curriculum elements of entrepreneurial teaching in the field of humanities sciences of higher education.
