Continuous education, educational management, educational technology and curriculum planning
Farzaneh Askary; mohamad javadipour; Rezvan Hakimzadeh; Keyvan Salehi
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Objective: Overloaded curriculum is an emerging and complex phenomenon in the field of curriculum, which is considered a necessity for every educational system. Prevention of this issue requires a comprehensive investigation in terms of dimensions and characteristics; Therefore, the current research ...
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Objective: Overloaded curriculum is an emerging and complex phenomenon in the field of curriculum, which is considered a necessity for every educational system. Prevention of this issue requires a comprehensive investigation in terms of dimensions and characteristics; Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of identifying the dimensions and features of the Overloaded curriculum in the primary school.Methods: The approach of qualitative research and its method was a systematic review based on the seven-step strategy of Wright et al (2007). The research community consisted of 71 studies that were collected from valid internal and external databases in the period of (2000-2023) and after quality assessment, 38 articles were selected and analyzed through coding.Results: The findings of the research showed that the overloaded curriculum has three dimensions: individual, organizational and educational. The individual dimension, including hoarding of content by subject experts, threatening the physical and mental health of students, job burnout of teachers, creating a dual status for principals and changing the role of teachers and parents; The educational dimension includes the excessive amount of goals, adding new content without reducing the previous content, multiple assignments and activities, time limit and multiple and time-consuming evaluations, and the organizational dimension including hasty decisions without research support, a tool look at the curriculum to achieve political goals and Social was the volume of curriculum documents and numerous plans and programs.Conclusion: The results showed that the overloaded curriculum is a multidimensional phenomenon, the prevention of which requires attention to curriculum elements, stakeholders, and organizational decisions.
Farzaneh Askary; Rezvan Hakimzadeh
Volume 15, Issue 53 , June 2021, , Pages 150-162
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The present study, with the purpose to compare the literacy curriculum in Australia and New Zealand in order to benefit from the experiences of these countries to improve the level of literacy education in Iran in 2020. The approach used in the research is qualitative and comparative in which Australia ...
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The present study, with the purpose to compare the literacy curriculum in Australia and New Zealand in order to benefit from the experiences of these countries to improve the level of literacy education in Iran in 2020. The approach used in the research is qualitative and comparative in which Australia and New Zealand, due to the high index of human development in 2020, obtaining favorable results in the PIRLS International assessment 2016 and effective activities in the field of literacy, by purposeful sampling have been selected. The data were collected by referring to valid scientific papers and websites of the Ministry of Education and the curriculum and valid documents related to literacy education in selected countries, and were analyzed and compared by Bereday’s four-step method and the similarity and difference method. The findings showed that the goals of literacy education in Iran are well explained and not much different from the literacy goals in selected countries, but determining the levels of literacy in each educational level and standards related to each level as well as education to thematic teachers have been neglected in extending concepts to other subjects that need to be revised and corrected.
Zahra Eslami; Rezvan Hakimzadeh; Ali Akbar Saboury
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The purpose of this study is to explain and compare the frameworks and indicators for assessing the quality of research in higher education institutions of Iran with some of the leading countries in the world such as England, Australia, the Netherlands, Italy and Hong Kong. This research is a comparative ...
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The purpose of this study is to explain and compare the frameworks and indicators for assessing the quality of research in higher education institutions of Iran with some of the leading countries in the world such as England, Australia, the Netherlands, Italy and Hong Kong. This research is a comparative study based on John Stuart Mill's Pattern that compares the similarities and differences between the indicators of research activities in these countries with Iran. Leading and successful countries in this area were targeted in terms of access to existing documents. The results of comparative studies indicate that all of the studied samples agree on the two criteria of "assessment outcomes of research" and "income generation", in this way, all the studied universities except Iran paid attention to "citation analysis and peer review". "The effectiveness of research" in the universities of England and Australia, the Netherlands and Hong Kong is considered as one of the most important criteria for measuring quality as Scientifically, economic, social, cultural, political, health and environment to improving the quality of life of the community. Existing documents show that comprehensive indicators and metrics are not used to evaluate the research quality according to different subject areas. Therefore, we need extensive research to measure the research impact with strong and accurate indicators within the country.
