The Lived Experiences of Iranian Technical and Engineering Students Studying in Australian Universities from the Teaching Process
Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum PlanningBatoul Torki Neisiani 1 , Narges Keshtiaray 2 , Farzad Sharifian 3
1 - PhD Student Curriculum Planning, Department of Educational Science and Psychology, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
2 - Associate Professor Curriculum Planning, Department of Educational Science and Psychology, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
3 - Professor in Monash University, Melbourne.
Keywords: Australia, Lived Experiences, Teaching, Technical and Engineering fields, Students,
Abstract :
The present study was conducted with the aim of representing the teaching process through the lived experiences of Iranian students studying in master's and doctorate courses in Australian universities who completed their undergraduate courses in Iranian universities. The qualitative research method was phenomenology. The scope of the research included Iranian students who have master's and doctorate courses in technical and engineering fields in Australian universities (Melbourne, Manash, Swinburne), who were selected by the purposeful snowball sampling method and collected information through semi-structured in-depth interviews became. After the interview, the sample size continued to be analyzed by thematic coding method until complete saturation and finally it reached 10 people, and the validity of the findings was done by the method of reconstructing the reality and using people outside the scope of the research. From the total findings, 167 conceptual codes in 10 main categories (characteristics of the teacher, teaching activity, content of the curriculum, structure of the curriculum, interaction between the teacher and students, evaluation of the curriculum (beginning, formative, final), learning environment , learning activities, educational and research facilities, attention to individual and social life needs) and 35 subcategories were extracted in line with the lived experiences of Iranian students in Australian universities.
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