Meimanat Abedini Baltork,
Volume 8, Issue 42 (3-2021)
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to study the challenges of virtual education in the Corona era from the perspective of lived experience of female faculty members of Mazandaran University. The design of the present study was qualitative and the method used, was phenomenological. The statistical population included women faculty members of University of Mazandaran in the academic year 2020-2021, which was a total of 71 members. Qualitative data were collected using semi-structured interviews of 20 members. The validity and reliability of the study were verified on the basis of validity, transferability, reliability, and verifiability the method of data analysis in this study was thematic analysis (comprehensive, organizing, and inclusive). The results showed that women faced various challenges in e-learning which were classified into 1 comprehensive theme, 3 organizing themes and 9 inclusive themes Changes in teaching style, infrastructure and facilities and students' lack of cooperation are the themes of the organizer. Each organizing theme also consists of several inclusive themes that include changes in teaching style and teaching and being time consuming; Challenges of university infrastructures, faculty facilities, student facilities and basic infrastructures; Failure of taking e-learning seriously, neglect of the classroom, and unreasonable expectations of students are among the basic themes that participants cited as a challenge to e-learning during the Corona era. Finally, virtual education and e-classroom which had not been considered in Iranian universities, since the arrival of this virus became the center of attention, which faced many challenges due to this issue. Identifying challenges is the first step is to resolve it so that affiliated organizations can take steps in this direction.
Ameneh Babazadeh,, - Ebrahim Salehi Omran, - Meimanat Abedini Baltork,
Volume 11, Issue 45 (12-2022)
Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the current and desirable status of the curriculum for primary school from the perspective of teachers and analyze its content in the sixth grade textbooks. The research design is a quantitative type and the research method is descriptive-survey; The statistical population included 250 primary school teachers in Babolsar. Based on Morgan's table, a sample of 148 people was selected by stratified proportional sampling. The instrument in this section is a researcher-made questionnaire that was used with a CVR of more than 0.56 and reliability with a Cronbach's alpha coefficient above 0.92. In the second part, the research method is content analysis. The statistical population of this section is the sixth grade textbooks in the academic year 1300-1499, which includes all books in this grade (Quran, heavenly gifts, social studies, writing, work and technology, thinking and research, Persian and science) with the exception of mathematics. The checklist instrument with CVR was 0.90 and its reliability with agreement coefficient of 0.77 was used. Shannon entropy method was used to analyze the data. Findings in the first part showed a little, the level of significance calculated between the two existing and desirable conditions is 0.001 (p <0.05); In the content analysis section, in the economic component, the index of "sustainable consumption", in the social component, the index of "health", in the cultural component, the index of "cultural heritage" and in the environmental component, the index of "energy" have received the most attention. The results showed that in the opinion of teachers, the current situation of the education curriculum for sustainable development is significantly less than the desired situation, and in order to reach the desired position, the elementary school curriculum should be reviewed.
Mahjoobeh Emdadi, - Meimanat Abedini Baltork, - Mostafa Azizi Shomami,
Volume 14, Issue 48 (8-2024)
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between quantum teaching and constructivism with curriculum decision-making by elementary teachers in Babolsar city. The design of the current research; Quantitative and descriptive-surveillance method and the statistical population included 240 elementary school teachers of Babolsar city, and 143 people were selected as a sample based on Morgan's sampling table. The research tools were adapted from the standard constructivism questionnaire of Mohammadi, Abedini Baltrok and Mansoori (2018), the standard questionnaire of Hajitabar firouzjaee's curriculum decision-making (2018) and the researcher-made questionnaire of quantum teaching. The validity of the tool was 97%, 86% and 97% respectively, and the reliability of the tool through Cronbach's alpha was 94%, 98% and 96%. Data analysis was done with descriptive statistics (standard deviation and mean) and inferential (Pearson's correlation coefficient statistical test and multiple regression at the same time). The results showed that there is a difference between quantum teaching and curriculum decision-making (r = 0.653), between constructivism and curriculum decision-making (r = 0.763) and between quantum teaching and curriculum decision-making (r = 0.652). There is a significant relationship at the 0.05 level in Babolsar elementary school. Also, the results showed that being constructivist can predict the way of curriculum decision-making (centralized/decentralized) of elementary school teachers in Babolsar city.
