Document Type : Research Article (Qualitative)

Authors

1 Islamic Azad University

2 Associate Professor, Department of Educational Management, West Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

3 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Management, West Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University

10.22034/ijes.2024.2020119.1526

Abstract

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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