Identifying and explaining the dimensions, components and indicators of the teacher's competence as a lifelong learner:A synthesis study

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

tahereh ahmadi ¹ , parvin samadi ² , parvin ahmadi ³

1 - Student - Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Educational Management and planning, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Educational Management and Planning, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Alzahra University.

Received: 2022-05-24 Accepted : 2022-10-29 Published : 2022-11-22

Keywords: competence, lifelong learner, Synthesis research, teacher,

Abstract :

The aim of the current research was to identify and explain the dimensions, components and indicators of the teacher's competence as a lifelong learner in related documents. The approach of the research is of a qualitative type with a meta-composite strategy and using the method of Sandelowski and Barroso. The required data were collected by searching the documents in the databases. Keywords lifelong learning, curiosity, lifelong learner, self-efficacy, emotional intelligence, informal learning, etc. were used to search internal and external databases without applying time limits. The inclusion criteria of the articles included: 1) theses, books and scientific research articles centered on the teacher as a lifelong learner, which were published in domestic and foreign databases. 2) The topic of the research was teacher learning. The field of research is authoritative articles and books in the field of the teacher as a lifelong learner, which was identified based on the entry criteria of 210 cases and finally 53 foreign documents and 4 internal documents were analyzed using MaxQDA 2020 software. In order to validate the findings, the method of triangulation of data sources was used. By analyzing the documents, 96 concepts were extracted and grouped into 57 concepts. Finally, the concepts of the same category are the 4 final concepts of "personal mechanism ,motivational mechanism ,"information and technology literacy mechanism, and "activism mechanism

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