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        1 - Validation of the integrated curriculum conceptual model for teacher-students of Farhangian University
        Rasoul Jamaati Amirhosain Mehdizadeh Rezvan Hakimzadeh Alireza Araghieh Batol Faghiharam
        This study was conducted with the aim of validating the integrated curriculum model for teacher-students of Farhangian University. To achieve this goal, a descriptive-survey method was used. The study population of this study consisted of all faculty members of Farhangi More
        This study was conducted with the aim of validating the integrated curriculum model for teacher-students of Farhangian University. To achieve this goal, a descriptive-survey method was used. The study population of this study consisted of all faculty members of Farhangian University and curriculum planning specialists that 56 of whom were selected by random sampling. A questionnaire was used to collect research data, the validity of which was 84.09% based on CVR and its reliability was 0.89 based on Cronbach's alpha. Data were analyzed by using mean, standard deviation, skewness and elongation and confirmatory factor analysis of the second type and Smart PLS software. Based on the results of this study, Farhangian University integrated curriculum model explains all the items of its four components, the model has a good fit and all its relationships are significant. Therefore, it can be concluded that this model is valid.Keywords: Validation, curriculum, Integration, teacher training, Farhangian University Manuscript profile
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        2 - Multicultural Teaching Analysis of University lecturers: Opportunities and Challenges
        Parvaneh Kahrizi Batool Faqih Aram Alireza Sadeghi Amirhosain Mehdizadeh Hasan Shabani
        The most important educational process of the higher education system is teaching, which has the ability to dynamize the mental and functional dynamics of students of any ethnicity and culture. University lecturers will be able to guide educational disciplines in the pa More
        The most important educational process of the higher education system is teaching, which has the ability to dynamize the mental and functional dynamics of students of any ethnicity and culture. University lecturers will be able to guide educational disciplines in the path of excellence and purpose by surrounding all the heritage left by Iranian ethnic groups. The aim of this study was to analyze the opportunities and challenges facing the multicultural teaching of university lecturers. The present study is qualitative and has been conducted in Islamic Azad University of Kermanshah province. The study population included curriculum specialists, educational psychologists, sociologists and lecturers who were selected using a snowball sampling method of 27 people. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. Data analysis method was performed using grounded theory coding method (three methods of open, axial and selective coding).The findings indicated that cognition and awareness, behavioral performance, educational performance as well as teaching performance, content and educational policies are the opportunities and challenges of multicultural teaching from the perspective of lecturers of free universities in Kermanshah province, respectively.Considering the existing challenges for multicultural teaching, it is possible to make optimal use of the existing opportunities, the teaching environment of the studied universities to be multicultural and to strengthen the academic performance of students from different ethnic groups and to guide them in a purposeful way. Manuscript profile