Designing a creative based curriculum model in corporate university

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

Morteza Shabani ¹ , Hasan Maleki ² , Abbas Abbaspur ³ , Esmail Sadipur ⁴

1 - PhD candidate in Curriculum- faculty of psychology and education, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Professor- Faculty of psychology and education- Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Associate Professor- Faculty of psychology and education- Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
4 - Associate professor- Faculty of psychology and education- Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2016-11-19 Accepted : 2017-05-28 Published : 2018-09-23

Keywords: Creativity, corporate university, curriculum model,

Abstract :

This research was conducted with the aim of designing a creative based curriculum model in corporate university with inductive approach. Population consisted of 3 groups of education experts, training, HR and R&D experts and managers and documents which were selected by availability sampling method. Data obtained by semi-structured interviews and analysis of documents. Data coding was done using open coding and the results lead to identifying, naming, and categorizing. Three methods were used to validate the findings including review by the interviewees, triangulation, and peer review. Results showed that the creative based curriculum model have three assumptions involving organizational context, learning atmosphere and creative problem solving and also five componentsgoal, learning experience, organization, teaching method and evaluation.

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