Mahdi Mahdi; Mohammad Yamani Duozi Sorkhabi; Morteza Rezaeizadeh; Morteza Monadi
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Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the existing educational and research inequities against students during university study.Methodology: This study is applied research in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of implementation method. Therefore, a qualitative phenomenological approach ...
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Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the existing educational and research inequities against students during university study.Methodology: This study is applied research in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of implementation method. Therefore, a qualitative phenomenological approach was used. The population of the study was students of a comprehensive public university in Tehran in the academic year 2019-2020. Twenty students were selected according to the principle of theoretical saturation by purposive and standard sampling. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews. The content validity of the interview tool was confirmed by experts and its reliability was confirmed by the inter-coder reliability method with a coefficient of 78%. Also, Van Kaam’s analysis method was used for data analysis.Findings: The findings showed that educational inequities had eight main themes and 45 sub-themes and research inequities had five main themes and 21 sub-themes. The main themes of educational inequities were teachers' weakness in teaching, lack of seriousness in teaching and learning, low criticism of teachers, unruly student evaluation, undermining student motivation, humiliation of students, non-recognition of student diversity, and limited access to professors. In the field of research, the main themes of inequity were discrimination in doctoral admissibility, restrictions on cooperation with professors, weakness and discrimination in providing scientific guidance, instrumental view to the student, and problems in obtaining the resources needed for research. These inequities are factors that negatively affect the development and strengthening of students' core capabilities, namely respect and dignity; knowledge and imagination; emotional integrity; learning disposition; voice; aspiration; practical reasoning; and relationships and social networks.Conclusion: Workshops for professors on the subject of educational and research equity, increasing the diversity of professors and the educational content in accordance with the differences of students, paying attention to students' opinions on various university issues, and addressing their objections, are some of the strategies to address existing inequities.
Majid Danayi; simin Foroughzadeh; Hossein Behravan; simin Foroughzadeh
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The increasing trend of opposite-sex friendship, especially among high-school students, has raised great concerns for parents as well as Iranian officials. Notwithstanding of a dramatic growth of such a relationship in our society, its meaning is unknown for parents and officials. The present inquiry ...
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The increasing trend of opposite-sex friendship, especially among high-school students, has raised great concerns for parents as well as Iranian officials. Notwithstanding of a dramatic growth of such a relationship in our society, its meaning is unknown for parents and officials. The present inquiry has explored the meaning of having a girlfriend from the high-school male students’ perspective utilizing hermeneutic methods such as meaning analysis and interpretation approaches. Due to the epistemological nature of the inquiry, a qualitative research design was preferred. Grounded on the theoretical framework of the study, sampling was chosen purposefully while taking advantage of data saturation technique. Data were collected via in-depth interviewing approach from among of eight participants with the experience of having friendship with the opposite sex. The collected data were coded and categorized carefully in such a way to address participants’ both general and individual meanings of opposite-sex friendship Findings show that there is a shared experience of love and compassion associated with physical changes like rapid heartbeat and body mobility or strange feelings like happy pains when boys are successful in their friendships. From the participants’ point of view, the opposite-sex friendship is a transient pleasure and a perilous experience which operates as an inhibitor in the way of individuals’ progress. Communication devices like phone and cellphone found as the commonest media for contact. Unlike families and officials’ perception of the issue as a sexual matter, the opposite-sex friendship lies in other factors such as curiosity and the prettiness of the girls naturally persuading the boys in initial stages irrespective of breeding any sexual intentions in the mind. Families and officials’ unawareness of the issue and their inappropriate care might bring about irretrievable social consequences
