A Rostaminasab
Volume 18, Issue 1 , September 2011, Pages 7-22
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In the second half of the fourth century Hejira, a group of Muslim philosophers, most of whom Iranian, formed a secret circle Basra known as "EKHVAN- UL– SAFA". M Basra They aimed to purge the religion from falsehood and superstitions with the help of philosophy. This group intended to reach objectives ...
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In the second half of the fourth century Hejira, a group of Muslim philosophers, most of whom Iranian, formed a secret circle Basra known as "EKHVAN- UL– SAFA". M Basra They aimed to purge the religion from falsehood and superstitions with the help of philosophy. This group intended to reach objectives like: knowing God, discovering the secrets of universe and unity of universe. In order to fulfill this objective they attempted to train the youth and also designed an educational plan. Based on this idea they composed fifty one educational treatises in fifty areas of knowledge such as logic and mathematics, natural sciences, comparative and theological issues, and metaphysical problems etc and tried to train teachers in different territories. In this article the structure of the educational philosophy of this circle will be examined. It will be demonstrated that the educational ideas of this circle (or society) involve views that have received attention by philosophers and educators only since the dawn of the 26th century. Acquaintance of the ideas of these scholars could prove beneficial toward the reform of current education. Of course these views suffer from certain flaws which have been discussed.
M.H. Heidari; H.A Bakhtiar Nasrabadi; H.R Behravan
Volume 18, Issue 1 , September 2011, Pages 23-42
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Looking at the individual and social dimensions of human life shows that human's have never been able to live in absence of ethics and moral education at any period of history. One of the philosophers who, whit a view of the contemporary world condition, has deeply scrutinized the issues of morality, ...
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Looking at the individual and social dimensions of human life shows that human's have never been able to live in absence of ethics and moral education at any period of history. One of the philosophers who, whit a view of the contemporary world condition, has deeply scrutinized the issues of morality, was Karl Popper. In this article, which reflects an analytic approach, popper's epistemological theory' especially his critical rationality, which is imbued with ethical insights' has been examined to derive implications for ethical education. These implications involve principles such as "equality of humans in knowledge and values," "scientific modesty", "critical dialogue and debate" and "moral autonomy". Educational-moral strategies derived from these principles can be considered by educators who want to advance teaching process with regard to the principles of moral education.
M.R Navah
Volume 18, Issue 1 , September 2011, Pages 43-60
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In his scientific activities, Durkheim was increasingly pursing the issue that government through social intervention in moral planning, should utilize and implement social knowledge and sociology to establish social coherence and equilibrium. Dorkheim maintained the view that he was a pioneer who intended ...
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In his scientific activities, Durkheim was increasingly pursing the issue that government through social intervention in moral planning, should utilize and implement social knowledge and sociology to establish social coherence and equilibrium. Dorkheim maintained the view that he was a pioneer who intended to reform the society by following social positivist codes (rules). He thought (assumed) that his commitment to moral and social reforms via improvement in the structure and content of education for the benefit of society, made him a sociocentrist (socialist). However, contrary to his alleyed reformative purposes his ideas were closer to the traditional conservative purposes, which involve, moral harmony and permanent hierarchy. In his belief, development must be in harmony with social order, not with human beings freedom, and he assumed that it was the duty of modern educational to realize this goal. Dorkheim's main concern was re-establishing social coherence and social harmony in the modern industrial world.
R Saberi; B Mahram
Volume 18, Issue 1 , September 2011, Pages 61-82
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One of the missions of general education is the development of art capacities in learners. Art production and criticism, aesthetics, the art history of Iran and other nations as the content structure in the textbooks of art educationare some of subjects that deserve to be considered deeply by curriculum ...
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One of the missions of general education is the development of art capacities in learners. Art production and criticism, aesthetics, the art history of Iran and other nations as the content structure in the textbooks of art educationare some of subjects that deserve to be considered deeply by curriculum developers. This may be done in view of the intended activities planned by educators to foster students' potentialities. This study was conducted through content analysis. The sounce consisted of the contents all text-books published centrally by government for junior high schools in 2009. In the process of content analysis, units of study were themes, images and exercises. Coding was done according to deductive method and on a basis of subject and structural topics of art education. To measure the reliability, 10% of content was coded by a second evaluator: the rate of agreement was 86%. The results indicated that madescending order aesthetics, art production and art history in Islam and Iran consist ituted the greatest dimensions of art training, and designing and painting, writing calligraphy and graphics represented the first to the third priorities in the content structure in junior high school text-books. The results showed that important aspects like music, art criticism, the art history of other nations and dramatic arts in art education were neglected.
Mohammad javad Liaghatdar; H.R Orayzi; S Sadrarhami; N Amini
Volume 18, Issue 1 , September 2011, Pages 83-104
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The aim of this study was to examine the effect of the Van Hiele theory-based instruction Process on the students’ motivation toward geometry compared to the traditional teaching. Through using random sampling method, among girls high schools in Tiran and Karvan, Two high school classes, one consisting ...
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The aim of this study was to examine the effect of the Van Hiele theory-based instruction Process on the students’ motivation toward geometry compared to the traditional teaching. Through using random sampling method, among girls high schools in Tiran and Karvan, Two high school classes, one consisting of math. Major students and the other science majors, were selected as experimental groups, while two similar groups were selected to act as control groups. Instruments included Raven test for intelligence evaluation, Math 1 grades, lesson plans data collected based on Van Hiele post-descriptive test of Geometry. The independent-samples t-test, Levene's Test, and ANOVA were used as the statistical tools. Results of this study indicated that teaching based on Van Hiele theory has more positive effect on student motivation compared to the traditional teaching. Before applying the independent variable, the groups were tested to make sure that there were no significant differences among them in terms of intelligence and ability of mathematic. But after the test period, there was a significant difference between their Geometry performance.
M Mortazavi; S Beshkar; H Mesgarani; GH.A Ahmadi; SH Bakhshalizadeh
Volume 18, Issue 1 , September 2011, Pages 105-124
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The Purpose of this research is comparing the effects of constructivism and traditional teaching method on academic achievement in math( 1) among first grade high school boy students. The research method applied to this study is a kind of quasi-experimental. The target population of the study- Baghmalek ...
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The Purpose of this research is comparing the effects of constructivism and traditional teaching method on academic achievement in math( 1) among first grade high school boy students. The research method applied to this study is a kind of quasi-experimental. The target population of the study- Baghmalek City high school boy- students in 86-87 fifty students in two classes were selected randomly subjects were divided into two equal groups of 25 students each. The control group received instruction with traditional method, whereas the experimental group was exposed to a method based on) .Measurement tools of this study consisted of researcher- constructivism made academic achievement test based on instructional materials in math 1 and The Riven Intelligence Test. First both experimental groups were instructed and then at and a post-test were administered to the two groups. The results of the study showed that academic achievement in the experimental group receiving constructivism- based instrument performed significantly higher than control group, The intelligence variable was controlled.
M Bahrani; M Khayyer; M Hoseinchari
Volume 18, Issue 1 , September 2011, Pages 125-150
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The aim of the present study was to study the social interactions in educational settings and their cognitive, motivational and affective outcomes. For this purpose, the model of relationships between motivational, affective, and performance outcomes with respect to the mediation effect of self-efficacy ...
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The aim of the present study was to study the social interactions in educational settings and their cognitive, motivational and affective outcomes. For this purpose, the model of relationships between motivational, affective, and performance outcomes with respect to the mediation effect of self-efficacy were analyzed. Participants were 273 middle school students (150 female, 123 male) selectedby cluster random sampling method from central areas of Shiraz City. Subjects completed scales of self-efficacy, academic motivation, positive and negative affects, feeling toward school and a math test. Results were analyzed by regression and path analysis methods. Findings showed that teacher and peer evaluation of students as the classroom social factors were the significant predictors of math self-efficacy. Self-efficacy was the unique factor which had a direct effect on motivational and affective variables. The influence of classroom social factors could affect dependent variables through self-efficacy. Also, self-efficacy and peers evaluation both had a significant direct effect in predicting math performance. Results were discussed in regard to theoretical issues. The results were consistent with the previous findings suggesting that self-efficacy judgments have a salient influence on the academic motivation, affects and performance of students
A Naami; M Mehrabizadeh-Honarmand; F Gol-Pichi
Volume 18, Issue 1 , September 2011, Pages 151-166
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This study explored the relationship between organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior. The sample consisted of 160 Schools principals in Dizful who were selected via simple random sampling method. Simple and multiple correlations were used to analyze the data. The results indicated ...
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This study explored the relationship between organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior. The sample consisted of 160 Schools principals in Dizful who were selected via simple random sampling method. Simple and multiple correlations were used to analyze the data. The results indicated that there is significant and positive correlation between effective and normative commitment and organizational citizenship behavior. There is not significant relationship between continuance commitment and organizational citizenship behavior. In addition, the results showed that effective commitment had the most important role in prediction of organizational citizenship behavior and its facets.
P Saketi; L Dehghani
Volume 18, Issue 1 , September 2011, Pages 167-186
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The main purpose of this study was a comparative evaluation of the quality of personnel training cycle at shiraz university (SU) and shiraz university of medical sciences (SUMS).To conduct the study a questionnaire containing four sub-scales (policy making, curriculum planning, program management, and ...
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The main purpose of this study was a comparative evaluation of the quality of personnel training cycle at shiraz university (SU) and shiraz university of medical sciences (SUMS).To conduct the study a questionnaire containing four sub-scales (policy making, curriculum planning, program management, and training evaluation) was developed and its validity and reliability were tested and verified. All university and college level administrators (65 SU, 75 SUMS) of both institutions and a random sample of trained personnel (100SU, 100 SUMS) participated in the study by responding to the questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed via repeated measure procedure. The following results were concluded: A significant difference was observed in the quality of personnel training cycle between the two institutions. At SU it was observed that "program management" ranks higher than other three sub-scales and "training evaluation" was evaluated lowest in comparison to other three sub-scales. At SUMS, it was observed that "policy making" and "program management" were practiced better than other sub-scales whereas "training evaluation" was evaluated lowest in comparison to other three sub-scales.
M.A Zebardast; N Shirbagi; Z Ghalavand
Volume 18, Issue 1 , September 2011, Pages 187-206
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This study examines relationship between trust and enabling bureaucracy in schools. The method is descriptive-correlative and population comprises all school teachers in Sanandaj. The sample consisted of 260 teachers selected randomly. The instruments include two questionnaires borrowed from other researches: ...
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This study examines relationship between trust and enabling bureaucracy in schools. The method is descriptive-correlative and population comprises all school teachers in Sanandaj. The sample consisted of 260 teachers selected randomly. The instruments include two questionnaires borrowed from other researches: Trust Questionnaire (26 items) and Enabling Bureaucracy Questionnaire (12 items). Reliability was measured via Cronbach a (Trust Questionnaire = 0.85 and Enabling Bureaucracy Questionnaire = 0.72). Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient, independent T-Test and ANOVA. Results showed that trust was high among teachers. Enabling bureaucracy was related to trust subscales positively and significantly. There was a significant difference between men and women in the field of enabling bureaucracy. Furthermore, there was a significant difference among teachers with respect to student and parent trust based on social class of schools.
A Aminbeidokhti; S Maisami
Volume 18, Issue 1 , September 2011, Pages 207-226
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Changing the environment is a ubiquitous phenomenon which is nowadays inseparable from organizational life. Peter Sange believes that in a complicated world, those organizations can survive that constantly increase their knowledge in order to compete with rivals. The aim of this study is to assess teachersُ ...
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Changing the environment is a ubiquitous phenomenon which is nowadays inseparable from organizational life. Peter Sange believes that in a complicated world, those organizations can survive that constantly increase their knowledge in order to compete with rivals. The aim of this study is to assess teachersُ attitudes toward creating a learning organization at Semnan City educational system. The research methodology is descriptive and the statistical population comprises all teachers of Semnan City educational system. A sample of 313 teachers was randomly selected. A researcher's made questionnaire was used for collecting data, and for data analysis descriptive statistics (prequncy, percentage table) and inference statistics (T- test and Factorial analysis) were used. The findings revealed that the educational system has suitable cultural in frastructure whit respect to conversion into a tearning organization but lacked physical infrastructure and suitable educational facilities. Besides, educational employees in terms of Peter Sange three principles of personal mastery, team learning and mental models are at desirable condition whereas they fall short of a desirable. Start reqarding the two principles of systematic thinking and shared visions.
