Teaching methods based on the development of future studies in higher education in Iran: qualitative study

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

Mehdi keshavarzi ¹ , mohammad Hossein Yarmohammadian ² , mohammad ali nadi ³

1 - دانشجوی دکتری، دانشکده روان‌شناسی و علوم تربیتی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی اصفهان (خوراسگان)، اصفهان، ایران.
2 - استاد، مرکز تحقیقات مدیریت و اقتصاد سلامت، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران.
3 - دانشیار، دانشکده روان‌شناسی و علوم تربیتی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد اصفهان (خوراسگان)، اصفهان، ایران.

Received: 2016-10-13 Accepted : 2018-04-18 Published : 2018-04-21

Keywords: Higher Education, Futures studies, teaching, Curriculum,

Abstract :

One of the duties of universities is the empowerment of students in various fields, including the recognition of the future or future studies. The increased ability of student futures can be improved through education during the years of study, so one can claim that one of the important variables that can be the ability of future student studies to influence students is the quality of teaching and learning methods. The purpose of this study was to design teaching methods based on the development of future studies in higher education, which was conducted using qualitative research methodology and using a strategy based on the data theory of the foundation. In this regard, semi-structured interviews with 14 faculty members in the field of curriculum and futures studies in universities of Fars province were carried out using purposeful approach and application of theoretical saturation criterion. To obtain the reliability and validity of the data from two Participants review method and review of non-participating experts in the research were used. The results of the data analysis were separated into separate concepts through three stages, open source coding, theoretical coding and selective coding with the aid of MAXQDA12 software, and 16 general categories were obtained. This article presents the findings of the study in the framework of the paradigmatic model including: causal conditions (4 categories), pivotal phenomenon (futures studies as a general approach to teaching), strategies (3 categories), fields (4 categories), interventional conditions (2 categories) and outcomes (2 categories).

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