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Amir Hosein Shokoufi Moghiman; Parinaz Benisi; Maryam Mosleh
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Background and purpose: By turning the school into a learning organization, the society is gradually guided towards development and lifelong learning. Therefore, today, turning schools into learning organizations is an important issue, and in order to realize it, one must have a correct understanding ...
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Background and purpose: By turning the school into a learning organization, the society is gradually guided towards development and lifelong learning. Therefore, today, turning schools into learning organizations is an important issue, and in order to realize it, one must have a correct understanding and insight into some of its surrounding concepts and issues. Therefore, the aim of the current research is to compile and fit the model of factors related to the development of learning public schools.
Method: The research approach is qualitative and quantitative and a semi-structured interview was conducted through targeted sampling with 22 experts from the Ministry of Education and schools in Tehran until reaching theoretical saturation and finally a questionnaire was designed based on the results of the qualitative part and spread among experts. In order to explore the development model of learning schools, data analysis was done using the foundational data theory and through MAXQDA software. Also, the fit of the relevant model was determined through structural equations using SmartPLS software.
Findings: After conducting qualitative interviews and coding, general categories and subcategories and identification concepts and causal factors, background factors, intervention factors, strategies and consequences of development of learning schools were determined and finally the development model of learning schools with 6 main dimensions and 17 subcategories. And 221 indicators were designed. Also, the fit of the extracted model was confirmed.
Results: Iran's education should simultaneously with the evolution of educational approaches in the world, provide the basis for the formation of learning schools, and in these schools, enhanced learning processes and an integrated interactive environment will be provided to improve the key skills of students, so that all the beneficiaries of the benefits of school development Learners benefit.
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Bibinaeimeh Sheikh; Kambiz Esmaeilnia shirvani; Maryam Safari; Masoumeh Bagherpur
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Objective: Education along with finding ideas and creativity fostering in schools, especially in conservatories is of particular importance. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting a model of education along with production based on idea finding and creativity fostering ...
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Objective: Education along with finding ideas and creativity fostering in schools, especially in conservatories is of particular importance. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting a model of education along with production based on idea finding and creativity fostering in the conservatories of Golestan province.
Method: This study was conducted with a qualitative approach. The statistical population of the present study were experts familiar with the field of research, which according to the principle of theoretical saturation number of 20 people of them were selected as a sample with using the purposeful sampling method. The tool of this study was a semi-structured interview, which the validity was calculated by the content method 0.76 and the reliability was calculated by the agreement coefficient between two coders method 0.89. The data of the present study were analyzed by coding method in MAXQDA software.
Results: The findings showed that the model of education along with production based on idea finding and creativity fostering in the conservatories of Golestan province had 56 components and 11 dimensions. The dimensions of the mentioned model were included content and organization (with 5 components), curriculum goals (with 14 components), teaching and learning strategies (with 7 components), connection with the labor market (with 3 components), participation in curriculum production (with 2 components), training and consulting (with 4 components), principles of compilation (with 3 components), evaluation (with 7 components), location activation and production facilitation (with 5 components), continuous interaction with scientific centers (with 3 components) and curriculum features (with 3 components).
Conclusion: Specialists and planners of the educational system, especially the education system of conservatories according to the identified dimensions and components can provide the basis for improving education along with production based on idea finding and creativity fostering in the conservatories.
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Fatemeh Radpour; Behzad Farrokh Seresht; Davoud Kiakojori; Hossein Ali Taghipour
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Purpose: The managers' communication skills are one of the most important factors of continued success in any organization, and for this purpose it is important and necessary to know the managers' personality characteristics to improve their communication skills. Therefore, the aim of this study was ...
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Purpose: The managers' communication skills are one of the most important factors of continued success in any organization, and for this purpose it is important and necessary to know the managers' personality characteristics to improve their communication skills. Therefore, the aim of this study was to designing a model of effective personality dimensions on the level of managers' communication skills.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive from type of survey. The research population was managers and assistants of Iran's National Oil Products Distribution Company, which the sample size was determine based on the Krejcie and Morgan table 191 people, but 210 questionnaires were distributed among managers and assistants. The research tools were included the researcher-made questionnaire of managers' personality dimensions (35 questions) and the questionnaire of managers' communication skills (18 questions). Data were analyzed with exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling methods in SPSS and Amos software.Findings: The findings showed that 10 questionnaires were excluded from the analysis due to incompleteness and the analysis was done for 200 people. The findings of the exploratory factor analysis showed that 9 questions were removed from the questionnaire of managers' personality dimensions due to low factor loading, and the final form had 26 questions in 6 components of honesty, extroversion, conscientiousness, flexibility, adaptability and responsibility and these six components could explain 80.37% of the total variance. Also, the factor loading of all six components was higher than 0.70, the average variance extracted of all was higher than 0.50, and the reliability of Cronbach's alpha and combination of all was higher than 0.70. In addition, the model of effective personality dimensions on the level of managers' communication skills had a good fit, and in the mentioned model, all six components of honesty, extroversion, conscientiousness, flexibility, adaptability and responsibility had a direct and significant effect on the managers' communication skills (P<0.001).Conclusion: The results of this study indicated the impact of all six components of honesty, extroversion, conscientiousness, flexibility, adaptability and responsibility on the managers' communication skills. Therefore, in order to improve the managers' communication skills it is possible to provide the basis for increasing and promoting the managers' personality dimensions through the improvement of working conditions and training workshops.
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Mohammed Hamzah Mansoor Altalebi; Mehrdad Sadeghi; Riyaz Hossein Abais AlMurshidi; Saeed Sharifi
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Purpose: Organizational citizenship behavior plays an important role in improving the service quality of organizations, including education organization. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the categories of organizational citizenship model in the education.Methodology: ...
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Purpose: Organizational citizenship behavior plays an important role in improving the service quality of organizations, including education organization. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the categories of organizational citizenship model in the education.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive from type of correlation. The research population was the education managers and workers of Babol province in Iraq country, and according to Cochran's formula the sample size was determined to be 385 people which this number was selected by available sampling method. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire of organizational citizenship in the education with 61 items, which its data were analyzed by exploratory factor analysis and partial least squares in SPSS-22 and Smart-PLS-4 software.Findings: The findings showed that the central phenomenon of organizational citizenship in education had 10 components in 5 categories of causal conditions, contextual conditions, intervening conditions, strategies and consequences (each one two components), which all of components had a factor loading of higher than 0.50 and all of them had Cronbach and combined reliability of higher than 0.70. Also, the correlation coefficients of the categories of causal conditions, contextual conditions, intervening conditions, central phenomenon, strategies and consequences were less than 0.45 and were indicated their non-overlapping. In addition, according to the indicators of commonality and redundancy, the organizational citizenship model in the education had a good fit and the effect of causal conditions, contextual conditions and intervening conditions on the central phenomenon, the effect of central phenomenon on the strategies and the effect of strategies on the consequences were significant (P<0.05).Conclusion: The designed organizational citizenship model in the education can help to education managers, officials and planners in designing programs to improve the organizational citizenship in this organization.
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Fatemeh Sharifi Golzardi; Ali Mohebi; Ruhollah Karimi Khoigani
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Purpose: Economic education is one of the needs of the day for all people, including students. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identifying the components of the economic education concept in the junior secondary education period.Methodology: The current research had a qualitative approach and ...
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Purpose: Economic education is one of the needs of the day for all people, including students. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identifying the components of the economic education concept in the junior secondary education period.Methodology: The current research had a qualitative approach and in terms of purpose was an applied research. The statistical population of this study were included all the documents of the last 15 years related to the scope of the current research, including articles, master's dissertations, Ph.D.'s theses and books. The population of this study were included 179 article, 22 master's dissertation, 5 Ph.D.'s thesis and 11 book, which 23 case of them were selected as a sample by purposive sampling method. The data of this study were collected by note taking and were analyzed by coding method according to synthesis research approach.Findings: The results of the findings showed that the economic education concept in the junior secondary education period had 30 sub components and 13 main components. The main components of the economic education concept in the junior secondary education period were included financial literacy (with 3 sub components), economic insight (with 1 sub component), preservation and development of economic and financial resources (with 2 sub components), consumption correct pattern (with 2 sub components), savings and investment relationship (with 3 sub components), budget management (with 3 sub components), social responsibility and commitment (with 1 sub component), specialization-orientation and innovation (with 2 sub components), respecting the rights of others (with 2 sub component), ethics-oriented (with 3 sub components), valuing work (with 5 sub components), opportunism (with 2 sub components) and tolerance (with 1 sub-component).Conclusion: According to the findings of this study, it is possible to teach the identified main and sub components for the economic education concept in the junior secondary education period
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Afsaneh Saber garakani; Mahnaz Parmoz; fariba hanifi
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Objective: Curriculum quality plays an important role in academic success and performance. As a result, the aim of this study was investigating the status of evaluation components of curriculum quality in the elementary schools in Tehran city.Method: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in ...
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Objective: Curriculum quality plays an important role in academic success and performance. As a result, the aim of this study was investigating the status of evaluation components of curriculum quality in the elementary schools in Tehran city.Method: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was mixed (qualitative-quantitative). The population of the qualitative section was the curriculum experts and professors of Tehran city, which according to the principle of theoretical saturation number of 12 people of them were selected by purposive sampling method. The population of the quantitative section was male and female teachers of public elementary schools of Tehran city in the 2021-2022 academic years with number 23593 people, which according to the Krejcie and Morgan table number of 377 people of them were selected by cluster sampling method. The research tools were semi-structured interviews and researcher-made questionnaires, which validity of the interviews was confirmed by triangulation method and its reliability was calculated by the coefficient of agreement between two coders 0.83, and the face validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the opinion of experts and its reliability was calculated by Cronbach's alpha method 0.85. Data were analyzed with open, axial and selective coding methods in MAXQDA software and one-sample t-test in SPSS software.Results: The findings showed that evaluation of curriculum quality in the elementary schools has 108 indicators in 23 components and 6 dimensions were included systematic approach of evaluation of curriculum quality (with 4 components of strategic thinking, generalizability of goals, receiving corrective feedback and facilitating the teaching and learning process), qualitative evaluation of activities ( with 3 components of evaluation of motivational activities, evaluation of practical activities and evaluation of curriculum activities), quality of modern facilities and technologies (with 3 components of cultural and sports facilities, educational facilities and welfare facilities), quality of structural factors (with 4 components of lack of resources and inappropriate distribution, weak foresight, individual and organizational communication and lack of work discipline), quality assessment of curriculum principles (with 4 components of flexibility,
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maryam ghaderi sheykhi abadi; fakhrossadat Nasiri; Afshin Afzali; mahmoud taajobi
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Purpose: Synergistic leadership style plays an important role in implementing quality standards in schools. The purpose of the current research was to construct and standardize the synergistic leadership questionnaire in the managers of technical and vocational schools.Methodology: The quantitative research ...
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Purpose: Synergistic leadership style plays an important role in implementing quality standards in schools. The purpose of the current research was to construct and standardize the synergistic leadership questionnaire in the managers of technical and vocational schools.Methodology: The quantitative research method was correlation studies. The research population was the teachers of technical and vocational schools in Tehran province in the academic year of 2021-2022. With the proportional stratified random sampling method based on gender and population classes and based on Cochran's formula, a sample 364 teachers were selected. To collect data, the 20-item researcher-made tool of synergistic leadership and the organizational ambidexterity tool Jansen(2006) were used. In order to investigate the factor structure and construct validity of the questionnaire, the techniques of content validity ratio, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, and convergent and divergent validity were used, and to investigate the reliability of the questionnaire, Cronbach's alpha method and composite reliability were used by SPSS25 and LISREL10.30 software.Findings: Based on the findings, 4 factors and 20 items were designed and create to measure the synergistic leadership of educational managers of technical and vocational schools. The content validity of the tool(0.7585) was confirmed based on the opinion of experts. In the exploratory factor analysis, four factors of organizational structure, extra-organizational factors, leadership behavior and attitudes, beliefs and values were observed with a special value higher than one, which were able to explain 71% of the variance of synergistic leadership. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis showed that the fit indices of the questionnaire are suitable and desirable and the questionnaire has good validity. Also, based on the optimal explained variance percentage of 63% in the second-order confirmatory factor analysis, the power of the questionnaire in explaining the variance of synergistic leadership was confirmed. Convergent validity(0.6304) and divergent validity(0.794), Cronbach's alpha(0.936) and composite reliability(0.95) of the questionnaire also indicated the appropriate validity and reliability of the synergistic leadership tool.Conclusion: Researchers can use the questionnaire designed to measure synergistic leadership and improve leadership skills in educational managers of technical and vocational schools as a standard tool.
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Adel Zahed Babolan; Mehdi Abdolahzadeh; Mohammad Esmaeili
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purpose: Among the issues that our country's organizations are facing is how to promote socialization. The importance of this issue is so great that today, one of the important factors of progress and development in developed countries is considered to be a trained and motivated workforce, or in a better ...
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purpose: Among the issues that our country's organizations are facing is how to promote socialization. The importance of this issue is so great that today, one of the important factors of progress and development in developed countries is considered to be a trained and motivated workforce, or in a better word, the sociability of specialized employees in different organizations. Accordingly, this study aimed to identify the antecedents and consequences of socialization in Iranian educational organizations using a meta-analysis approach.Methodology: The current research is descriptive in terms of execution method, applied in terms of the type of use, and quantitative in terms of type of data. The statistical population of the research was the articles published in scientific research journals in Iran in the field of organizational socialization, from 2011 to 2023, from which 29 cases were entered through a meta-analysis process with a non-random purposive sampling method. The selected studies were analyzed using CMA2 software. Findings: The findings of the research showed that among the antecedents of organizational socialization, respectively, the variables of electronic literacy (0.849), professional ethics (0.823), empowerment (0.671), organizational culture (0.560), and spirituality in the work environment (0.550) had the largest effect size. Also, among the consequences of organizational socialization, respectively, the variables of social responsibility (0.798), psychological capital (0.680), role outputs (0.669), ethical behavior (0.640), and job enthusiasm (0.620), had the largest effect size. Conclusion: Identifying the antecedents and consequences of socialization in educational organizations that have diverse and yet sensitive goals, missions and tasks helps managers to facilitate the socialization of employees in the organization through focusing and applying the identified factors and variables, and also from the results to Be aware of the use of these factors and variables in the organization and take useful and effective measures to improve the organizational socialization of employees.
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forouzan karkhaneh; Hasan Reza Yusofund; Hoosin dehqan
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Introduction:Inequality and its different dimensions are considered specific signs of underdevelopment.Differences and inequalities are considered a serious threat to countries,because they make it difficult to achieve national unity and integration.The main goal of this article is to investigate the ...
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Introduction:Inequality and its different dimensions are considered specific signs of underdevelopment.Differences and inequalities are considered a serious threat to countries,because they make it difficult to achieve national unity and integration.The main goal of this article is to investigate the consequences of educational inequality in the western region of provinces.Methodology:Phenomenology is an interpretive paradigm, so in this case, looking at phenomena is a meaningful and scrutinizing look. Pursuing this interpretative aspect is a way to acquire deep knowledge through the discovery of meanings, goals,perspectives and underlying logic. The research was conducted with a qualitative method.The interviews were targeted and each interview lasted approximately 45 minutes, due to the spread of the corona virus in the country and the people being quarantined, the interviews were conducted over the phone. The interview text of each person was written and again sent to the interviewee to confirm the accuracy and correctness of the text.With this method, the validity of the interviews has been obtained. Summarizing the interview information,the content analysis of the social, economic and educational inequality phenomenon in the target provinces was analyzed.Targeted sampling is the sample size of interviews with twenty informed people and experts in the research area until theoretical saturation is reached. The participants in this research included twenty people working in the three provinces of Kurdistan, Kermanshah and Ilam, of which 11were men and9 were women. The participants were university professors and education teachers, as well as health workers findings; Reducing the factors affecting the creation of social inequality in education can be the basis for the growth of various indicators in a society. Educational inequality has negative effects on the cultural, economic, social and even political conditions of a country.Removing the effective factors in creating social inequality in education, such as class gap, gender perspective, lack of efficient manpower and sufficient resources and equipment will lead to a growing trend and prosperity in the society.Results; Education is the basic pillar of development, in addition to providing an opportunity for people to develop their abilities and talents, it has social and economic effects and benefits.
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maliheh asghari; Hakimeh Sadat Hosseini Mehrabadi,
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the mediating effect of the quality of aesthetic experience on the relationship between spiritual intelligence and life satisfaction in teachers. The research method was descriptive-correlation with emphasis on structural equations. The statistical population ...
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the mediating effect of the quality of aesthetic experience on the relationship between spiritual intelligence and life satisfaction in teachers. The research method was descriptive-correlation with emphasis on structural equations. The statistical population of the research consisted of all teachers working in education in Qom province in the academic year of 1402-1401 in the number of (12549 people). sample size was 212 who were selected using available sampling method. Data collection was based on three spiritual intelligence questionnaires, SISRI 24, King (2008), aesthetic experience questionnaire AEQ Wenzer (2018) and life satisfaction questionnaire (SWLS) Diener et al. (1985). Data analysis was done with SPSS and SMARTPLS3 software.Data analysis was done with SPSS25 and SMARTPLS4 software. The results of the research showed that There is a positive and meaningful relationship between all the components of spiritual intelligence and the quality of aesthetic experience and life satisfaction. There is also a significant relationship between aesthetic experience and life satisfaction.
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Mehdi Bagheri; Iran Sheikhabadi; Hoseinali Jahed
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Purpose: This research was conducted with the aim of identifying the supervisory components of educational leaders of elementary schools in order to provide a comprehensive model for Iran's government education.Methodology: The method of this research was a qualitative and exploratory method (using background ...
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Purpose: This research was conducted with the aim of identifying the supervisory components of educational leaders of elementary schools in order to provide a comprehensive model for Iran's government education.Methodology: The method of this research was a qualitative and exploratory method (using background theory/foundation data), in terms of its purpose, it was an applied type of applied research, and according to its purpose, it was a descriptive type of correlation. In this research, data was collected using texts and semi-structured interviews. The statistical population in this research included professors of educational sciences and education experts in Hormozgan province. In this way, the interviewees include education experts and the interviews of the experts were conducted until theoretical saturation. The method of data analysis in the qualitative part was content analysis. The coding steps used in this research included open and axial coding.Findings: The results showed that 8 basic indicators were obtained for the supervision model of educational leaders in primary schools, which are: 1- Leadership in educational improvement 2- Leadership in curriculum improvement 3- Leadership in staff improvement 4- Theoretical skill and scientific 5- Technical and technological skills 6- Ethical and professional skills 7- Management and leadership skills 8- Communication skills.
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Ravanbakhsh Jahanshahi; Mansour Haghighatian; Shapur Bahian
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Purpose: Many experts in the fields of sociology and psychology believe that adolescence is the beginning of the stage of identity formation and one of the duties of social institutions is to help national identity reproduction in the adolescent and young generation. Therefore, the current research was ...
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Purpose: Many experts in the fields of sociology and psychology believe that adolescence is the beginning of the stage of identity formation and one of the duties of social institutions is to help national identity reproduction in the adolescent and young generation. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of sociologically investigating the impact of cultural factors on the national identity reproduction in students.Method: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was cross-sectional from type of correlation. The research population consisted of all adolescents aged 13-16 years in Kohgiluyeh and Boyar-Ahmad provinces with number of 51339 people, which the sample size was considered with using Cochran's formula to be 400 people, and this number was selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire (93 questions) which whose face and content validity was confirmed and its reliability using Cronbach's alpha method was estimated above 0.70. Data were analyzed by path analysis in SPSS and AMOS software.Results: The findings showed that ethnic identity and adherence to customs had a positive and significant correlation with the national identity reproduction in students and the expansion of the culture of tolerance, family disorganization and expansion of virtual space had a negative and significant correlation with the national identity reproduction in them (P<0.001). Also, the sociologically model of the impact of cultural factors on the national identity reproduction in students had a good fit, and in this model, cultural factors had a direct and significant effect on the national identity reproduction in students (P<0.001).Conclusion: According to the results of this study, the cultural factors had a significant impact on the national identity reproduction in students. Therefore, to national identity reproduce in students it is possible to prepare the ground for the improvement of cultural factors.
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Lida Esmaili; Akhtar Jamali; Nadergholi Ghorchian
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Objective: The human resources of any organization is a determining factor in its organization, and improving social intelligence in the human resources of educational organizations can improve the quality of education and learning services. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim ...
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Objective: The human resources of any organization is a determining factor in its organization, and improving social intelligence in the human resources of educational organizations can improve the quality of education and learning services. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of identifying and analyzing the dimensions and components of improving social intelligence among the faculty members of Farhangian University.Method: The method of this study was mixed (qualitative-quantitative). The research population in the qualitative part was the experts in the fields of educational management, cultural management, human resources management and social psychology in 2021 year and in the quantitative part was the faculty members of Farhangian University of Tehran in the 2021-2022 academic years. The sample of the research in the qualitative part according to the principle of theoretical saturation were determined 20 people who these people were selected by purposeful sampling method and in the quantitative part according to Cochran's formula were determined 260 people who these people were selected by stratified random sampling method based on the field of study. Data in the qualitative part were collected by semi-structured interview and analyzed by content analysis method in MAXQDA software and in quantitative part were collected by researcher-made questionnaire and analyzed by exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling methods in SPSS and Smart PLS software.Results: The findings of the qualitative part showed that the social intelligence among the faculty members of Farhangian University has 55 indicators, 9 components and 3 dimensions including individual characteristics (with the components of personality characteristics and evaluation), social knowledge and technology (with the components of knowledge application, information technology application and educational technology) and social skills (with the components of internal and external relations, public relations, ability in a specialized field and management skills). The findings of the quantitative part showed that the factor load, content validity, average variance extracted and reliability of dimensions and components were confirmed. In addition, the social intelligence model on all three dimensions of individual characteristics, social knowledge and technology and social skills and each of the three mentioned
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Mohammad Delghandi; Mohammad karimi; Hassan Nodehi; Moslem Cherabin
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Purpose: Due to the growth and evolution of information and communication technology, the methods of education have also undergone extensive changes. Therefore, the present research was conducted with the aim of designing an efficient virtual education pattern in Farhangian University.Methodology: This ...
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Purpose: Due to the growth and evolution of information and communication technology, the methods of education have also undergone extensive changes. Therefore, the present research was conducted with the aim of designing an efficient virtual education pattern in Farhangian University.Methodology: This research in terms of purpose and implementation method was applied and descriptive from type of exploratory, respectively. The current study population were included all managers and professors of Farhangian universities in Khorasan Razavi province including six Pardis in 2021 year. The samples of the present study according to the principle of theoretical saturation were determined 13 people who after checking the inclusion criteria were selected by purposive sampling method. The data of this study were collected by semi-structured interview (validity was confirmed by triangulation method and reliability was obtained by Cohen's Kappa coefficient 0.87) and analyzed by thematic analysis and three rounds of Delphi.Findings: According to the analysis of the interviews, the efficient virtual education pattern in Farhangian University had 71 sub themes in the form of 12 main themes. In this study, the main themes were included pedagogical factors, technological factors, organizational factors, integrated management, foresight, purposive educational quality, measurability, flexibility in education, support services, knowledge management, ease of access and information and content. Also, after the first round of Delphi, 9 sub themes and after the second round of Delphi 6 sub themes were removed from the efficient virtual education pattern in Farhangian University, and in the third round of Delphi all the sub themes were evaluated as appropriate. As a result, the final pattern of efficient virtual education in Farhangian University had 56 sub themes in the form of 12 main themes, and the pattern of its main themes was drawn.Conclusion: The managers, officials and planners of Farhangian University according to the designed efficient virtual education pattern in Farhangian University can improve the conditions to improve the current state of education, especially virtual education in this university.
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Atefeh Mohkamkar; Fatemeh Shaterian; Azam Nikookar
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Objective: Successful intelligence can improve many psychological and academic characteristics, and considering the importance of emotional self-awareness and academic engagement, the present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of education based on successful intelligence ...
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Objective: Successful intelligence can improve many psychological and academic characteristics, and considering the importance of emotional self-awareness and academic engagement, the present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of education based on successful intelligence on emotional self-awareness and academic engagement of secondary school students.Method: This was a semi-experimental study with a pre-test, post-test and follow-up design with experimental and control groups. The population of the current research was all students of the tenth and eleventh grades of theoretical branch of Saveh city in the academic years of 2022-3, which the sample size was calculated according to G Power software equal to 25 people for each group. Therefore, 50 people were selected by a targeted method and randomly replaced into two experimental and control groups. The experimental group received 10 sessions of 75 minute of education based on successful intelligence, and the control group did not receive any intervention during this period. The research tools were included the revised emotional self-awareness questionnaire of Rieffe et al (2008) and academic engagement questionnaire of Schaufeli et al (2002), which whose psychometric indicators were confirmed. In this study, to analyze the data were used from analysis of variance with repeated measurements and Bonferroni's post hoc test in SPSS software.Results: The findings showed that there was a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in the post-test and follow-up phases in terms of emotional self-awareness and academic engagement. In the other words, education based on successful intelligence increased the emotional self-awareness and academic engagement of second school students, and the results remained in the follow-up phase as well (P<0.05).Conclusion: Considering the effectiveness of education based on successful intelligence on increasing the emotional self-awareness and academic engagement of secondary school students, to improve the psychological and academic characteristics of students can be used the method of education based on successful intelligence.
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Ramazan Jannati; Maryam Afzalkhani; Hadi Rezghi Shirsvar
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Purpose: The present research was conducted with the aim of identifying the factors affecting the development of teachers' and students' participation in research activities (student research centers).Methodology: The present study was applied in terms of purpose and qualitative in terms of execution ...
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Purpose: The present research was conducted with the aim of identifying the factors affecting the development of teachers' and students' participation in research activities (student research centers).Methodology: The present study was applied in terms of purpose and qualitative in terms of execution method. The research community was experts in the field of student research institutes of Semnan province in 2021-2022, among them, according to the principle of theoretical saturation, 16 people were selected using targeted and snowball sampling methods. were chosen. The tool of data collection was a semi-structured interview, the validity of which was confirmed by the triangulation method and the reliability of 62% was obtained by the Cohen's kappa coefficient method. Data were analyzed by open, axial and selective coding method in MAXQDA 2020 software.Findings: The findings showed that the factors affecting the development of teachers' and students' participation in research activities included 18 concepts, 6 sub-categories and 3 main categories. The main categories include the structure of the research center (with two sub-categories of the system of rewarding and appreciating the efforts of teachers and students and the conditions of application and ethical principles in its process), the clear mission and vision of the research center (with the two sub-categories of developing a strategic plan and developing Specific goals, missions, values and perspectives) and laws, regulations and policies (with the subcategory of flexibility in the process of employing teachers, student teachers and gifted students and adding points in the annual evaluation and ranking).Discussion and conclusion: Considering the effective factors identified on the development of teachers' and students' participation in research activities (student research centers), it is necessary to plan for the development of their participation, which is realized through the identified factors.
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Shokouh Jamali Zavareh; Gholamreza Manshaee; Mohammad Ali Nadi
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Objective: the aim of this study was to compilation, normalization and validation of ineffective behaviors of universities professors.Method: This study was a descriptive from type of correlation that its population was all the faculty members of five big universities in the 2019-2020 academic years. ...
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Objective: the aim of this study was to compilation, normalization and validation of ineffective behaviors of universities professors.Method: This study was a descriptive from type of correlation that its population was all the faculty members of five big universities in the 2019-2020 academic years. The sample of the research was 123 professors of the mentioned universities who were selected by available sampling method. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire of ineffective behaviors of universities professors with 64 items in three factors of educational, research and communication. The data were analyzed with the methods of content validity ratio, content validity index and exploratory factor analysis in SPSS and Smart-PLS software.Results: The results of content validity ratio and content validity index showed that these statistics were obtained for all three educational, research and communication factors and the components of each of them were higher than 0.80. the results of exploratory factor analysis showed that there were three factors for the ineffective behavior of universities professors; So that the first factor i.e. the educational factor had 3 components, the second factor i.e. the research factor had 4 components and the third factor i.e. the communication factor had 5 components, which the factor loading of all of them was higher than 0.60 and the Cronbach and combined reliability of all of them was higher than 0.70. In addition, the values of R2 for all factors and components were higher than 0.50 and the GOF index was equal to 0.43, which indicated the appropriate fit of the model and the model of ineffective behaviors of universities professors was drawn in the factor loading and t-test modes, which based on, the inefficient behaviors of universities professors had a significant effect on educational, research and communication factors and each factor on its components due to a t-statistic higher than 1.96.Conclusion: The questionnaire of the current research is a valid and reliable tool for measuring the ineffective behaviors of universities professors. University administrators and officials can use it to measure the ineffective behaviors of their university professors and design programs to reduce these behaviors.
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Elnaz Yousefi Tazeh Kand Qeshlag; Shahram Ranjdoust; mohamad azimi
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Objective: Revolutionary education in Iran is a part of society and a representative of a complex social system and discourse with unique characteristics. Since Farhangian University can play a significant role in promoting and encouraging revolutionary Islamic education by training efficient human resources ...
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Objective: Revolutionary education in Iran is a part of society and a representative of a complex social system and discourse with unique characteristics. Since Farhangian University can play a significant role in promoting and encouraging revolutionary Islamic education by training efficient human resources and revolutionary teachers, this research aims to compile the characteristics of the target element of the revolutionary education curriculum in Farhangian University and Design to use forward-looking approaches to design and determine features.Method: The research method is combined (content analysis-qualitative-quantitative). In the qualitative stage, the research environment was the professors of Farhangian University, among whom 13 people were selected by purposeful, judgmental and non-random sampling. In the quantitative stage, all the professors of Farhangian University were the statistical population, and the questionnaire was distributed among all the professors. And finally, 234 questionnaires were collected and used in the analysis. Data collection tools included semi-structured interviews and questionnaires. To analyze the data in a semi-structured interview using thematic analysis method using MAXQDA10 software and to validate the presented model using the structural equation model method using SPSS software and AMOS software.Results: The findings indicate that in the presented model, the characteristics of the goal element of the revolutionary education and training curriculum of Farhangian University with a forward-looking approach can be presented in three emotional, cognitive and skill/functional dimensions and thirteen components. The conclusion from the findings of the research is that the central component of the goal element is a visible change in the behavior and attitude of learners, and it is expected that in the future, the characteristics of the goal element will be based on the physical and mental improvement of people. and try to see a visible change in their behavior.Conclusion: The results can help experts, officials, managers and planners in designing and implementing programs to improve the curriculum goals of the educational system.
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Sharareh Rezapour; Kiomars Niazazari; Negin Jabbary
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Purpose: The Covid-19 outbreak has effect almost all aspects of life including education and technology has almost completely replaced the traditional face-to-face teaching and learning environment. The cloud computing is widely used in education, especially in higher education, for online access and ...
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Purpose: The Covid-19 outbreak has effect almost all aspects of life including education and technology has almost completely replaced the traditional face-to-face teaching and learning environment. The cloud computing is widely used in education, especially in higher education, for online access and sharing of educational resources, educational information, notes, lectures and academic assessments. Therefore, this study investigated the paradigmatic pattern of cloud computing adoption in educational institutions by expanding the technology readiness theory.Methodology: This research is of a qualitative type that was conducted by applying the grounded theory. The scope of the study was Golestan province's education department and the statistical population of the research were experts in the field of research, which sampling from them was done in a purposive and snowball sampling methods. The data collection tool in this research was a semi-structured interview that after 13 interviews reached theoretical saturation. To determine the validity, the acceptability criterion was used and to determine the reliability was used the internal agreement method with a value of 76.4%. The data were analyzed through three stages of open, axial and selective coding.Findings: The findings showed that 55 subcategories were identified in 8 main categories with a grounded theory approach; So that for the causal conditions was identified one main category of empowering education managers and teachers, for the background conditions was identified two main categories of strengthening cloud learning infrastructures in organizational education and forming support learning associations, for intervening conditions was identified two main categories of security and trust, for central phenomenon was identified one main category of educational management system, for strategies was identified two main categories of curriculum system development and use of cloud service technology in the field of e-learning and for the consequences was identified on main category of consequences. Finally, the paradigmatic pattern of cloud computing adoption in educational institutions by expanding the technology readiness theory with a grounded qualitative approach was drawn.Conclusion: The paradigmatic pattern of cloud computing adoption in educational institutions by expanding the technology readiness can help specialists and planners of educational systems in improving educational conditions.
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Seyyed Khadijeh Jamali; Seyyed Mosa Kafi; Abbas Aboulghasemi; Bahman Akbari
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Purpose: The forced labor for children has negative cognitive, social and emotional consequences. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of teaching choice theory and inquiry philosophy on social competence and goal orientation of labor children.Methodology: ...
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Purpose: The forced labor for children has negative cognitive, social and emotional consequences. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of teaching choice theory and inquiry philosophy on social competence and goal orientation of labor children.Methodology: The current research was a semi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The research population was the labor children of Rasht city in 2021 year. A number of 45 labor children were selected as a sample with using the available sampling method and were assigned in three equal groups by a simple random method with lottery, including the groups of teaching choice theory, teaching inquiry philosophy and control. The first experimental group received 8 sessions of teaching choice theory and the second experimental group received 10 sessions of teaching inquiry philosophy, and the control group did not receive any teaching. The research tools were included questionnaires of social competence (Felner, 2002) and goal orientation (Midgley et al., 1998) and its resulting data were analyzed by methods of univariate and multivariate covariance analysis and Bonferroni post hoc test in SPSS software.Findings: The findings showed that teaching in both experimental groups in compared the control group led to increase social competence and goal orientation of tendency-mastery, avoidance-mastery, and tendency- performance in labor children (P<0.05), but there was no significance difference between them in the goal orientation of avoidance-performance (P>0.05). Also, there was no significant difference between the experimental groups of teaching choice theory and inquiry philosophy in terms of any of the variables of social competence and goal orientation (P>0.05).Conclusion: According to the results, to improve the social competence and goal orientation of labor children, it is possible to use the teaching methods of choice theory and inquiry philosophy.
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zahra Sadeghloo; Ladan Salimi; Vahid Fallah
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Purpose: Considering the growing use of digital and non-digital games, the purpose of this study was designing a curriculum pattern of education based on non-digital game with a high-scope approach for student teachers.Methodology: The present study in terms of purpose was applied, in terms of time was ...
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Purpose: Considering the growing use of digital and non-digital games, the purpose of this study was designing a curriculum pattern of education based on non-digital game with a high-scope approach for student teachers.Methodology: The present study in terms of purpose was applied, in terms of time was cross-sectional and in terms of implementation method was qualitative. The study population was the experts and specialists of curriculum and educational games, which according to the principle of theoretical saturation number of 14 people of them with the purposive sampling method were selected as a sample. Data were collected by semi-structured interview and analyzed by coding analysis method in MAXQDA software.Findings: The findings showed that the curriculum pattern of education based on non-digital game with a high-scope approach for student teachers had 79 concepts, 24 subcategories and 11 categories. In this pattern, for curriculum goals were identified 28 concepts, 9 subcategories and 4 categories including child's mental development (with 2 subcategories of improving cognitive skills and mental development), improving child's social and emotional skills (with 2 subcategories of emotional skills and personality and social skills), Improving motivation and readiness (with 2 subcategories of child preparation and child activity) and child's spiritual and cultural development (with 3 subcategories of spiritual growth, cultural growth and general growth and development), for curriculum content were identified 23 concepts, 6 subcategories and 3 categories including cognitive education (with 2 subcategories of academic education and mental skills), social and artistic subjects (with 2 subcategories of social skills and artistic education) and general education and development (with 2 subcategories of general subjects and physical growth), for curriculum teaching and learning methods were identified 18 concepts 5 subcategories and 2 categories including group and active methods (with 3 subcategories of education through games, group education and active methods) and individual and direct methods (with 2 subcategories of artistic method and cognitive method) and for curriculum evaluation were identified 10 concepts, 4 subcategories and 2 categories including passive methods (with 2 subcategories of observation and written methods) and active methods (with 2 subcategories of functional methods and group methods).Conclusion: The results of this study about the curriculum pattern of education based on non-digital game with a high-scope approach for student teachers can be used by curriculum experts and planners of Farhangian University to improve the game-based curriculum.
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Saeed Shafahi; Alireza Chenari; Soghra Afkaneh
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Purpose: Knowledge management plays an important role in the growth and development of various organizations, especially educational organizations. Therefore, the aim of this study was investigating the impact of future study development indicators of knowledge management in Islamic Azad Universities ...
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Purpose: Knowledge management plays an important role in the growth and development of various organizations, especially educational organizations. Therefore, the aim of this study was investigating the impact of future study development indicators of knowledge management in Islamic Azad Universities of Tehran province.Methodology: The current research in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was cross-sectional. The research population was all the members of the faculty and teaching staff of the faculties of educational sciences of the Islamic Azad Universities of Tehran province in the 2022-2023 academic years with number of 210 people. The research sample based on the Krejcie and Morgan table was estimated to be 160 people, who were selected by stratified random sampling method. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire of future study development of knowledge management (67 items), whose face validity was confirmed by academic experts and its reliability was calculated using Cronbach's alpha method 0.92. Data were analyzed with exploratory factor analysis and structural equations in SPSS version 23 and LISREL version 8.7 software.Findings: The findings showed that the future study development of knowledge management has 67 items in 14 factors and 6 dimensions of organizational structure and information technology infrastructure as causal factors, effective cultural platforms on the development of future study and management strategies as underlying factors, alignment of the university with the changing needs of society and higher education as intervening factors, knowledge creation, knowledge sharing, knowledge application and knowledge policies storage as central phenomenon, transformation in the educational system and the institutionalization of foresight and policy making as strategies and the development of organizational awareness and human resource productivity as consequences; So that all factors had a content validity ratio was higher than 0.70, average variance extracted was higher than 0.5, and Cronbach's reliability was higher than 0.80. The model of future study development indicators of knowledge management in Islamic Azad Universities of Tehran province had a good fit. In this model, each of the factors has a direct and significant effect on the underlying factors, and causal factors had a direct and significant effect on the underlying factors, intervening factors and central phenomenon, underlying factors, intervening factors and central phenomenon had a direct and significant effect on the strategies and underlying factors, central phenomenon and strategies had a direct and significant effect on the consequences (P<0.001).Conclusion: The results of this study can be used by managers and officials of educational systems, especially in the higher education system with the aim of future study development of knowledge management in order to create a competitive advantage.
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Macan Aria Parsa; Mohammad Reza Dalvi Esfahan
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Purpose: Considering the importance of entrepreneurship in the metaverse era, especially with a future research approach, the present research was conducted with the aim of establishing an entrepreneurial model with a future research approach in the metaverse era in knowledge-based companies in the field ...
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Purpose: Considering the importance of entrepreneurship in the metaverse era, especially with a future research approach, the present research was conducted with the aim of establishing an entrepreneurial model with a future research approach in the metaverse era in knowledge-based companies in the field of information technology.Methodology: The current research in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was mixed (qualitative-quantitative). The research population in the qualitative part was university faculty members and managers of knowledge-based companies in the field of information technology, which number of 17 people of them according to the principle of theoretical saturation were selected as a sample by purposive sampling method. The research population in the quantitative part was the employees and managers of knowledge-based companies in the field of information technology in 29 major cities of Iran country with number of 45331 people, which according to Cochran's formula, the sample size was calculated 184 people, and considering the possible losses, 200 people of them were selected as a sample by available sampling method. The research tools in the qualitative and quantitative parts respectively were the semi-structured interview and researcher-made questionnaire (51 items), which the validity of the interviews was confirmed by the triangulation method and its reliability was calculated by the agreement coefficient method between two coders 0.88, and the face validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the opinion of experts and its reliability was confirmed by the Cronbach's alpha method was calculated 0.92. The qualitative part data were analyzed with open, axial and selective coding method based on grounded theory in MAXQDA-2018 software and the quantitative part data were analyzed with exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling methods in SPSS-23 and SMART PLS-4 software.Findings: The findings of the qualitative part showed that the establishing an entrepreneurial model with a future research approach in the metaverse era in knowledge-based companies in the field of information technology had 293 concepts, 47 sub categories and 17 main categories in 6 dimensions; So that the causal conditions dimension were included 11 sub categories in the 4 main categories of balance between opportunity exploration and creating competitive advantage, innovation development, growth prospects and benefiting from scientific and strategic approaches, the background conditions dimension were included 6 sub categories in the 2 main categories of regulatory approach and cognitive-normative approach, the intervening conditions dimension were included 6 sub categories in the 3 main categories of country's macro policies and planning in the issues of employment creation and entrepreneurship in the field of information technology, motivational mobility of material and spiritual issues and organizational dynamics, the central phenomenon dimension were included 5 sub categories in the 2 main categories of organizational structure of entrepreneurship and organizational policies of entrepreneurship, the strategies dimension were included 11 sub categories in the 4 main categories of having strategic thinking, forward-looking actions, improving work processes and using of education and knowledge management and the consequences dimension were included 8 sub categories in the 2 main categories of prosperity and flourishing of economy and targeted community development. Also, the findings of the quantitative part showed that there were 32 missing questionnaires and the quantitative section analyzes were performed for 178 people. Based on the analysis, all the dimensions had a factor load and average variance extracted of higher than 0.50 and reliability of higher than 0.70. In addition to that, the establishing an entrepreneurial model with a future research approach in the metaverse era in knowledge-based companies in the field of information technology had an acceptable fit, and in the mentioned model, the causal conditions on central phenomenon; the central phenomenon, background conditions and intervening conditions on strategies and strategies on outcomes had a direct and significant effect (P<0.001).Conclusion: The results of the current research about the establishing an entrepreneurial model with a future research approach in the metaverse era in knowledge-based companies in the field of information technology have many practical implications for experts and planners of knowledge-based companies, especially in the field of information technology, and they based on the results of this research can take an effective step towards job creation and establishing an entrepreneurial in the metaverse era.
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Hadi Abedzadeh; Amineh Ahmadi; mojtaba moazzami
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Purpose: The purpose of this research is to analyze the dimensions and components of cyber addiction prevention management in the youth of Zanjan province.Methodology: The qualitative research method is applied research in terms of its purpose, and in terms of the analysis method, it was implemented ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this research is to analyze the dimensions and components of cyber addiction prevention management in the youth of Zanjan province.Methodology: The qualitative research method is applied research in terms of its purpose, and in terms of the analysis method, it was implemented with the paradigm model of Strauss and Corbin (1990-1998). The statistical population includes 15 experts in the field of university education and university elites who were selected by targeted and accessible sampling method. The data collection tool includes two parts, library method and interview (text review and semi-structured interview with experts). For data analysis, open, central and selective coding based on foundational data theory and MAXQDA 2020 software was used.Findings: The results showed that the dimensions and components of cyber addiction prevention management among the youth of Zanjan province were identified and extracted in 5 main categories of foundation data and 15 components, which include causal conditions (family factors, individual factors, attractions of cyberspace and lack of media literacy), contextual conditions (social conditions, cultural environment), intervening conditions (social policies, unemployment and poverty), strategies (social participation, family education, life skills training and cultural and sports facilities) and consequences (improving mental health , increasing the number of employees, management of virtual space).Conclusion: Internet not only has many uses in daily life; Rather, it has special and unique features that increase its attractiveness a hundredfold, and it leads to addiction to the Internet, tolerance, withdrawal, emotional disturbances, and cutting off social relations by keeping people away from social relations, causing depression and loneliness in them, as a result, with Establishing courses in order to educate families with the culture of optimal use of smart phones and equipment, in order to prevent disappointment, depression and loneliness in order to prevent cyber addiction in young people.
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Moosa Moghadas; Parivash Jafari; Mohammad Noor Rahmani; Nader Gholi Ghoorchian
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Purpose: Positive leadership among school principals can create a competitive advantage for the education system. As a result, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting a model for promoting positive leadership among school principals.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was ...
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Purpose: Positive leadership among school principals can create a competitive advantage for the education system. As a result, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting a model for promoting positive leadership among school principals.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive from survey type. The statistical population of this study was all 950 school principals in Fars province, which based on Cochran's formula 365 principals by stratified random sampling method were selected as a sample. The data were collected with a demographic information form and a researcher-made questionnaire for promoting positive leadership among school principals (30 items), which its validity and reliability of were assessed as suitable, and for their analysis were used from exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling methods in SPSS and AMOS software.Findings: The findings showed that promoting positive leadership among school principals had 30 items in 3 dimensions of individual (11 items), organizational (13 items) and environmental (6 items); So that the factor loading of all 30 items and all dimensions was higher than 0.40, their average extracted variance was higher than 0.50, and their Cronbach's alpha and combination were higher than 0.70. Also, the fit indices of the promoting positive leadership model among school principals indicated the acceptable fit of the mentioned model and this model had a direct significant effect on all three dimensions of individual, organizational and environmental (P<0.001).Conclusion: According to the results of this study, educational systems and schools in order to achieve goals and achieve competitive advantage can provide the basis for improving individual, organizational and environmental of positive leadership among school principals through the items of each of them.
