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Volume 4, Issue 8 (2-2017)
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This study aimed to examine the effects of integrating humor into math curriculum on mathematical creativity of sixth grade students in primary school. The current paper reports the results of the quantitative section of a larger study conducted through a mixed methods design. Mathematical creativity of students based on their performance was measured after the implementation of the researcher-developed package that included humor-integrated math content generated based on the concepts of sixth grade math textbook. Pre-test and post-test results showed that integration of some elements of instructional humor with math concepts can have positive effects on math creativity of the students. Suggestions are the development of humor-integrated curricula packages based on needs and requirements of the learners as well as the subject matters.
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Volume 5, Issue 9 (9-2017)
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The present research aims to determinate the innovation indicators Teaching-learning activities of Curricula based on Constructivism and their application in Isfahan Art University. Qualitative and quantitative methods have been used. The statistical population was the qualitative part of all authorities in education and art education of whom 19 were purposefully selected as samples. The statistical population in the quantitative part consisted of MA and PhD students of Isfahan Art University whom 285people were randomly selected. The research data's were collected from semi-structured interview and realized questionnaires The results of the qualitative part that the most important innovation indicators in Teaching-learning activities consist of: Experimental approach in curriculum planning, attention to the Self- directed, According to the thinking skills., continuous and quality Evaluation, According to the Artist principles of dialogue and discovery-based learning and Application of new knowledge in the field of view and analysis of works of art. The application of innovation indicators” is less than the average. So, holding educational courses, using the experiences of the arts faculty and art experts, continuous review of curriculum based on constructivism indices, are useful factors in improving and innovating Art curricul.
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Volume 5, Issue 9 (9-2017)
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This aim of the current research was presenting a conceptual model based on living experiences of internship curriculum. The research approach was qualitative and phenomenological. The instrument for data collection was a semi-structured interview and research data was gathered from 24 student-teachers, 15 Supervisor and 18 teacher-educator from different departments. The content of the living experiences of those groups was analyzed according to Colaizzeri pattern. The research results showed the categories of curriculum internship experiences. Among Supervisor, 4 categories of knowledge, attitudes, organization and interaction, among teacher-educators, 3 categories including attitude , organization and interaction, and lastly among students-teachers 5 categories of cognitive, emotional, attitude, behavioral, interactions was developed. At the end of the research five points was proposed for improvement of the quality of internship curriculum.
Ms. Zohreh Gharaei, Dr. Saeed Ketabi, Dr. Mansoor Tavakoli,
Volume 5, Issue 10 (3-2018)
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This study was conducted to remedy the shortcomings of the curriculum that the authors had developed for the course Consecutive Interpreting. The curriculum had been designed adopting a social constructivist framework and implemented for a semester to detect the imperfections. Since the main problems centered on the paucity of learners' interactions and the limitedness of the existing interactions to few learners, the face-to-face class was complemented with an online class on Moodle. The blended design was implemented for another semester to evaluate its efficiency in solving the problems. Three public forums were used for discussions. The study revealed that Forum is an efficient module in enhancing interactions. Besides, the differences between the mean participation rate of students with different gender, age and semester of entrance turned out not to be significant, indicating that such variations in the online class had not been barriers hindering learners from getting into interaction.
Mr Mohammadtaghi Roodi, Dr Kourosh Fathi Vajargah, Dr Mahboobeh Arefi, Dr Rezvan Hakimzadeh, Dr Masuod Sharifi,
Volume 6, Issue 11 (9-2018)
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Scientific disciplines evolve based on the modern needs of societies and curriculum is no exception. One of the recent concepts introduced in the curriculum area is curriculum counseling. Explaining and conceptualizing this concept could facilitate the improvement of the learning level and realizing the objectives of the curriculum. In this study, curriculum counseling was discussed as a new concept in curriculum studies. The approach employed in this research was qualitative with systematic review. The research data was collected through library studies and documentation. The findings of this study indicated that the concept of counseling curriculum has its theoretical basis and ground in new conceptualists’ theories, including phenomenology theory and autobiography of the curriculum. In addition, curriculum counseling could play an important role in improving the level of learning and the teaching-learning methods, and particularly the development and enhancement of learner personality within the framework of curriculum. Counseling and psychology could cooperate effectively in curriculum studies in order to achieve curriculum counseling goals.
Ms. Somayeh Ghorbani, Dr. S.ebrahim Jafari, Dr. Fereydoon Sharifian,
Volume 7, Issue 13 (3-2019)
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The present study aims at determining teachers’ professional qualifications in “the learning approach to knowing” and presenting executive strategies for realization of this approach. The research employs an exploratory mixed-method research. The population in the qualitative part of the research consists of experts of education and in the quantitative part includes all high school teachers of Districts 2 and 3 of Isfahan. To select participants in both parts, the purposive sampling technique was used; in the qualitative part, 20 experts were employed using the chain purposive sampling method, and in the quantitative part, teachers with MA/MSc and PhD degrees of Isfahan City were selected. To collect data in the qualitative part, semi-structured interviewing technique, and in the quantitative part, a researcher-made questionnaire with 14 scales of professional qualifications for teachers were usedualitative findings were analyzed suing content analysis of interviews, and quantitative findings were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.
Mr. Sayyed Ali Ghaderi, Dr. Behrooz Mahram, Dr. Mahmoud Saeedy Rezvani, Dr. Mohsen Noghani Dokht Bahmani, Dr. Morteza Karami,
Volume 7, Issue 13 (3-2019)
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The goal of this study was to identify and develop an appropriate theoretical framework for designing curricula in crises. In this regard, first, by document analysis and ampliative criticism methods, the consequences of crises on the society and the educational system were extracted and used as a basis for criticism and drawing a conclusion. Then, relevant taxonomies in curriculum theories were studied, and based on some criteria such as comprehensiveness and efficiency in answering the research questions, the taxonomy of Miller was selected and its expounded theories on crises were analyzed. Based on results, given the special psychological and social conditions of people who have been involved with crises, it was recognized that the guidelines of the social humanistic theory are more appropriate than the others for designing a curriculum which would help increase people's resilience and cause their faster return to normal conditions.
Ms. Fatemeh Asadollahi, Dr. Mahmood Mehrmohammadi, Dr. Ebrahim Talaee, Dr. Javad Hatami,
Volume 7, Issue 14 (10-2019)
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The article aim is theoretical clarification of reflective narrative writing as a professional development approach in student teacher internship curriculum. Method: meta interpretation is used in order to percept the relation between reflective narrative writing and professional development in three Steps: first, reflective narrative writing literature was reviewed to identify theoretical lenses. second, studies that suggest theoretical models on issues such as; »reflective«,»reflective practice«, »reflective narrative writing«, »professional development« were chosen and their findings were analysis conceptually.third, the excluded concepts were categorized in epistemological paradigms of previous lenses. Findings show the conceptual findings of theoretical models on four above issues are blanketed in notable aspects (about towleve concepts).Also, both reflective narrative writing and professional development are kinds of individual and collective learning. Providing a conceptual framework and comparing it with internship curriculum plan of Farhangiyan university are the study results.
Mr. Hosein Sharafi, Dr. Bakhtiar Shabani Varaki, Dr. Mohammad Saeid Abdekhodaei, Dr. Ali Moghimi,
Volume 7, Issue 14 (10-2019)
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The main purpose of this paper is to explain the difficulties of existing assessment approaches and suggest an alternative approach in order to overcome these difficulties. Therefore, firstly, the existing assessment approaches have been criticized and next an intergral assessment approach was presented based on the neuro-phenomenology which was inspired by the causal layered analysis, Ken Wilber's theory of integral and fuzzy logic. The most important features of this approach to assessment are holographic attitudes towards human life, reciprocal relationships between mind, brain, body and environment and a synchronous consideration of first-person experiential and third-person experimental approaches to cognition.
Ms. Sarasadat Khalifeh Soltani, Dr. Kourosh Fathi Vajargah, Dr. Nematollah Fazeli, Dr. Mahboubeh Arefi, Dr. Golnar Mehran,
Volume 7, Issue 14 (10-2019)
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Gender informs different understanding and interpretations of educational experience and hence these different interpretations of interactions and potential capacities offer a new perspective on higher education and can even cause changes in higher education. Applying narrative inquiry and post-structural approach to gender, this paper attempts to describe lived experience of women doctoral students in Education as well as their understanding of gender in the pathways of higher education to doctoral level.
Ms Mozhgan Kord, Dr. Yahya Ghaedy, Dr. Saeid Zarghami-Hamrah, Dr. Ramazan Barkhordari,
Volume 8, Issue 15 (3-2020)
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In the new perspectives of the curriculum, informal and lived experiences of students are as valuable as formal and planned experiences. The main purpose of this research is to examine the experience and meaning of good life in informal curriculum. To this purpose, the experience and meaning of a good life for students through Instagram mediation were examined. To achieve this goal, grounded theory method was considered appropriate and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 7 female high school students in Izeh city. Findings in nine categories: celebrity, extremes and imitation, pleasant mental feeling, flow experience, academic failure, family relationships, physical and mental harm, finding a career path and gaining skills and four conceptual classes of orientations, behaviors, experiences And the performances.it represents a experience and meaning hedonistic and preference-satisfaction of good life for students.
Mrs Zainab Ahmadi Azarsanghan, Dr Faegheh Mohammadi, Dr Firooz Mahmoodi,
Volume 8, Issue 16 (9-2020)
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The purpose of this study was to address the challenges and approaches to produce customized electronic content using web based learning resources by the teachers of elementary smart schools of Tabriz city. The phenomenological research method has been used for this qualitative research and the sample was the teachers of primary smart schools in Tabriz. The sample was selected using a purposive snowball sampling method until reaching theoretical saturation. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews. Findings showed that teachers of the smart Schools are faced with two types of challenges in relation to content creation
Zahra Sadat Mehmandoust Ghamsari, Korosh Fathi, Abasalt Khrasani, Saeed Safaei Movahed,
Volume 9, Issue 17 (3-2021)
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workplace curriculum as an emerging aspest of curriculum discipline, attempt to apply the finding of this field of study in workplace learning. The purpose of this research is to examine the different dimensions of the workplace curriculum in the related studies and present a workplace curriculum model. Research methodology is thematic research synthesis and research community is All published document in the field of workplace curriculum from 1993 to 2017 in seven valid databases. The content of the documents was categorized and organized by using MAXQDA (18). Based on the results, the workplace curriculum as main theme has four themes: "aspect", "effective factors", "constructive elements" and "expected outcomes". Each of the themes also has a variety of levels that have been used in workplace curricuum model. The proposed model has influential factors, the curuculum cycle, and the output of the workplace curriculum.
Ms. Nasrin Mahdavi, Dr. Zahra Niknam, Dr. Mohammad Attaran, Dr. Nematollah Mousapour,
Volume 9, Issue 17 (3-2021)
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The idea of pedagogy content knowledge in the three dimensions of "collectivepedagogycontent knowledge", "personal pedagogy content knowledge" and "in acted pedagogy content knowledge" is a window into the realm of educatorchr('39')s professional knowledge. The purpose of this study is to identify and investigate the components of personal pedagogy content knowledge that provides an important role in the understandingandeducationalorientationofeducators in real classroom status. In this study, a qualitative approach was used to identify and investigate the components of personal pedagogy content knowledge and11educators were selected in a targeted manner.Data collection and analysis were done simultaneously through interviews and class observations. Findings showed that the elements and components of educatorchr('39')spersonal content knowledge include five main components: thepurposeofcontent pedagogy, content realm, content and pedagogy, content and curriculum, content and valuation. The educators were classifiedintotwogroups, discipline-based and context-oriented, based on the educatorchr('39')s interpretations of the identified components
Ms. Saharnaz Berangi, Dr Ali Moradkhani, Dr Yahya Ghaedi,
Volume 9, Issue 18 (10-2021)
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The purpose of this article was to investigate the possibilities of Musical Inquiry for use in P4C.the questions are:what is Musical Inquiry?What facilities does it provide for Music Education?the methodology is descriptive-analytical.the article uses the components of musical knowledge to design three methods of musical inquiry.the method of data acquisition was library research;study of classical music styles from1900to1950 and after1950.stimulies:two works by Cage,a work by Debussy,a work by Penderesky. Musical inquiry is a method to equip students with linguistic-cognitive abilities,with a combination of technical analysis and aesthetical experiences. Learning music by Inquiry, teaches the students how music acts as a social phenomenon;it provides them with the tools and concepts of musical terminology to give them the skill and power to talk about musical works. Activities with a combination of Social and Musical Inquiry are suggested to systematize historical concepts in the mind and increase student’s abilities to composing or arrangement.
Mohsen Taghizadeh, Mohamad Reza Nistani, Fridon Sharifian,
Volume 10, Issue 19 (3-2022)
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This study tries to formulate elements of practice -based curriculum in Iranian higher education from the perspective of education specialists with an interpretive approach. The research approach used is a qualitative methodology that has conducted semi-structured interviews with 21 academic actors. The data obtained from the interviews have been analyzed based on the research theory of the grounded theory in the form of three stages of open coding, axial coding and selective coding. The result was the determination of the elements of the practice-based curriculum model in seven elements: purpose, content, teaching-learning strategies, materials and resources, teaching-learning opportunities, learning environment conditions and evaluation. Each of these elements has components
Kobra Bahaloo Horeh, Zahra Gooya, . Mahbobeh Arefi, Koorosh Fathi Vajargah,
Volume 10, Issue 19 (3-2022)
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A research was conducted using qualitative approach, to identify the required knowledge for mathematics educators that are preparing prospective elementary teachers. Two mathematics educators from “Farhangian University” participated in this study. The data collected from four different sources observation of virtual classes of two participants while teaching multiplication and division of fractions, semi-structred interviews with participant, educators’ lesson plans and first author’s field notes. The classes hold virtually due to the Covid-19 pandamic. After many levels of systematic data reduction, three categories emerged as “the role of educators’ beliefs in teaching mathematicsL, “choosing challenging content for developing conceptual understanding of multiplication and division of fractions and “recognition of misconceptions of elementary students”. As a result, a theoretical framework developed for required knowledge of mathematics educators with four components as “knowledge of mathematics-content”, “knowledge of mathematics curriculum", "knowledge of students’ mathematics misconceptions” and “knowledge of modifying teaching to fit the situation.”
Ahmad Arabi, Alireza Assareh, Esmail Azimi, Muhammad Imam Jomeh,
Volume 11, Issue 21 (3-2023)
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The main purpose of this research was to investigate the barriers, facilitators, and continuance of implementing a creative instructional method (Collaborative prototyping of digital educational games using design thinking). This study employed a phenomenological study as a qualitative research method. The data were collected using a semi-structured interview. Participants included 20 teachers that have experienced the method mentioned above in their class teaching in primary schools. An abductive content analysis was conducted to determine the main and sub-categories. The identified barriers and facilitators were categorized according to the stages of the design thinking process: empathy, definition and idea generation, prototype construction and evaluation. Regarding continuance factors, six categories were identified: learning and instructional activities, content organization strategies, game conditions, teacher-related factors, student-related factors, and evaluation-related factors. Future research suggestions were discussed in light of the study findings.
Yaghoob Lohrabi, Fereydoon Sharifian, Seyed Ebrahim Mir Shah Jafari,
Volume 11, Issue 21 (3-2023)
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the views of experts in relation to the personal theorizing and its role in teaching excellence. In this regard, among the professors who had scientific experience and works were selected and interviewed. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview. Interviews were conducted face-to-face and virtual. After coding, the collected data was analyzed using the categorization method. The results showed that from the point of view of most of the professors, having experience, knowledge and scientific awareness are among the prerequisites for personal theorizing. Also, the professors believed that the relationship between general theories and personal theorizing is in three forms: whole to part, integrated, and technical-artistic. According to the professors' point of view, increasing knowledge and improving professors' performance are the most important opportunities, and the lack of experience of professors is the most important challenge to personal theorizing.
Masume Kiyani,
Volume 11, Issue 21 (3-2023)
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the patterns of Montessori, Waldorf, and Bank Street in three axes; the type of view of the child and his / her agency, children's evaluation, and the quality of the educational environment using descriptive methods and qualitative content analysis. Findings of this research in the first axis in all three models indicate the uniqueness, ability, agency, and competence of the child in constructing and transmitting meanings, emphasizing hearing the child's voice and following it by educators and adults. The second axis also emphasizes the child's well-being and her active participation in monitoring her learning and achievements, and in this regard, the evaluation process is aimed at developing children's sense of agency. According to the third axis, the environment is a key element in the quality of children's development and learning, and to some extent in the development of children's sense of agency.
