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.
Social Sciences
Narges Aboutalebi; Saeed Saffarian Hamedani; maryam Taghvaee Yazdi; Tayebeh Tajari
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Purpose: Having a futurology approach in curriculum designing can create a competitive advantage for higher education. As a result, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting the workplace curriculum model with a futurology approach in the Iran's higher education system.Methodology: ...
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Purpose: Having a futurology approach in curriculum designing can create a competitive advantage for higher education. As a result, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting the workplace curriculum model with a futurology approach in the Iran's higher education system.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive-survey. The current research population was all managers, professors and experts in the fields of higher education management, educational management, knowledge management, curriculum planning and future studies of Farhangian University of Mazandaran province, totaling 452 people, who were selected by total sampling method. The data were collected with a researcher-made questionnaire of the workplace curriculum with a futurology approach in the higher education system which its validity and reliability were evaluated as appropriate and were analyzed with the methods of exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling in SPSS and Smart PLS software.Findings: The findings showed that the workplace curriculum model with a futurology approach in the Iran's higher education system had 42 indicators and 22 components in 6 categories. The category of causal conditions includes the components of the need to pay attention to environmental factors, the need to pay attention to organizational factors, the need to pay attention to individual factors, the need to pay attention to social and cultural factors and the need to pay attention to technological changes, the category of main phenomenon includes the curriculum component of the workplace curriculum with a futurology approach, the category of contextual conditions includes the components of the curriculum fit with environmental, organizational and individual goals and characteristics, the correct evaluation process, the creation of a learning organization, the expansion of the inclusion of workplace curriculum and the organizational discipline, the category of intervening conditions includes the components of policies, incomplete understanding of the concept of workplace planning and educational technology, the category of strategies includes the components of the application of virtual education in the development of workplace curriculum planning, environmental science and future-oriented needs statistics in the development of curriculum planning for the workplace, creating flexibility in programs and customizing the workplace curriculum, developing a collaborative learning mechanism with an emphasis on decentralization and strengthening organizational culture and adaptability among the different levels of identity and the category of the outcomes includes the components of developing employees' competencies, realizing educational effectiveness and realizing educational satisfaction. The factor loading of all the categories and components was higher than 0.70, the average variance extracted was higher than 0.50 and the combined reliability of all of them was higher than 0.70. In addition, the workplace curriculum model with a futurology approach in the Iran's higher education system had a good fit and, in this model, the causal conditions on the workplace curriculum with a futurology approach, contextual conditions, intervening conditions and the workplace curriculum with a futurology approach on the strategies and strategies on the consequences and each of the categories on their components had a direct and significant effect (P<0.05).Conclusion: According to the workplace curriculum model with a futurology approach in the Iran's higher education system, planning based on it is necessary to improve the curriculum situation.
Sakine Khatoon Ghazanfari; Reza Yoosefi Saeedabadi; Vahid Fallah
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to model the relationship between human resource management system and appointment based on the competence of managers in the higher education system. Methodology: The research method was a combination of mixed (quantitative-qualitative) exploratory type. In the ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to model the relationship between human resource management system and appointment based on the competence of managers in the higher education system. Methodology: The research method was a combination of mixed (quantitative-qualitative) exploratory type. In the qualitative section, the statistical population included university deputies in the department of management and resources development (support) of higher education centers in Mazandaran province. Using the "rich information samples" sampling method with 20 deputies by Delphi method and using semi-structured questionnaires; an interview was conducted. The statistical population of the study, in a small part, included the faculty members (instructor, assistant professor, associate professor and full professor) of higher education centers in Mazandaran province in the academic year 2018- 19. People were selected as the research sample. The data collection tools in the quantitative part were human resource management questionnaires and the desired appointment of managers. The face and content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts and the reliability of the questionnaires was calculated and accepted through Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. Data analysis was performed using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis with Spss and Amos software. Results: The results of the qualitative section indicated that the human resource management system had eight dimensions and the appointment of competency-based managers had twelve dimensions. The results of the quantitative section showed that all aspects of the human resource management system and the appointment of managers based on competence were approved. Conclusion: Based on the research findings, the optimal appointment of managers in educational centers leads to the strengthening and proper functioning of human resources and consequently the high efficiency of the educational system.
