Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Ph.D. Candidate of Curriculum, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Department of Education, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

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.

Keywords

زارعی زوارکی، ا؛ و رضایی، ع. (۱۳۹۴). مطالعه تطبیقی سرفصل برنامه درسی دوره کارشناسی ارشد تکنولوژی آموزشی با تأکید بر آموزش ویژه در دانشگاه‌های آمریکا و ایران، پژوهش در نظام‌های آموزشی، ۹ (۲۸)، ۱۷۷-۱۵۲.
سراج، ف.، روشن، ب.، نجفیان، آ؛ و یوسفی‌راد، ف. (۱۳۹۸). بررسی خوانایی کتاب‌های فارسی دوره ابتدایی: پایه‌های اول تا ششم، مطالعات برنامه درسی ایران، ۱۴ (۵۵)، ۱۴۰-۱۱۳.
سند برنامه درسی ملی جمهوری اسلامی ایران. (۱۳۹۱). تهران: وزارت آموزش‌وپرورش.
ضیائیان، ا. (۱۳۹۲). بررسی رابطه سواد خواندن دانش‌آموزان پایه چهارم ابتدایی با عملکرد علوم آن‌ها در مطالعات تیمز و پرلز. پایان‌نامه‌ کارشناسی ارشد. دانشگاه شهید رجایی.
کسیانی، ن؛ و زارعی، ح. (۱۳۹۸). رابطه سواد خواندن با عملکرد ریاضی و علوم در دانش‌آموزان دختر در آزمون تیمز، علوم روان‌شناختی، ۱۸ (۷۴)، ۲۵۷-۲۶۴.
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حمیدی نصرآباد، ا.، شیخی فینی، ع.، زینلی‌پور، ح؛ و سماوی، ع. (۱۳۹۹). ارزیابی ظرفیت کتاب‌های درسی بخوانیم ابتدایی از حیث تطابق با چارچوب سنجش مطالعه پرلز ۲۰۱۶، مطالعات برنامه درسی ایران، ۱۵ (۵۹)، ۲۰۴-۱۸۳.
 
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