Survey the relationship between philosophical mindedness and curriculum orientations of high schools' teachers of Zahedan city in 2013-2014

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

Masoud Ramroodi ¹ , Mohamad akbary borang ² , Asadollah zangooei ³ , Mahdi Hoseny ⁴

1 - 1کارشناس ارشد برنامه ریزی درسی، دانشکده علوم تربیتی و روانشناسی، دانشگاه بیرجند، بیرجند، ایران
2 - استادیار گروه علوم تربیتی، دانشکده، دانشگاه بیرجند، بیرجند، ایران
3 - 3استادیار گروه علوم تربیتی، دانشکده علوم تربیتی و روانشناسی، دانشگاه بیرجند، بیرجند، ایران
4 - 4کارشناس ارشد برنامه ریزی درسی، دانشکده علوم تربیتی و روانشناسی، دانشگاه بیرجند، بیرجند، ایران

Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2016-04-20

Keywords: teachers, Curriculum, philosophical mindedness, mind, curriculum orientation,

Abstract :

Current study was conducted to investigate the relationship between teachers' Philosophical mindedness and curriculum orientation in high school level in Zahedan. This study is descriptive and correlational and its statistical population includes 894 high school teachers of city of Zahedan in 1391-92 academic years and finally 270 teacher of this statistical population were selected through multi-stage cluster sampling as statistical sample. Our data collection tools were included Philosophical mindedness questionnaire with 60 question and Cheung & Wong 's curriculum orientation questionnaire with 30 question that reliability coefficient through Cronbach's alpha was 0/72 for Philosophical mindedness questionnaire and 0/86 for curriculum orientation questionnaire. The results of data analysis shows that there is positive and meaningful relationship between teachers' Philosophical mindedness and curriculum orientation and also Depths & Comprehensiveness are able to predict the teachers' curriculum orientation. Through data collected, there was a statistical meaningful difference between teachers' Philosophical mindedness in terms of gender, age and academic degree but this relationship in teachers' curriculum orientation wasn't meaningful.

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