The evolution of curriculum in Iran's higher education system

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Country Assessment Organization

2 Shahid Beheshti University

3 farhangian University

4 faculty- shahid bahshti

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explain the evolution of curriculum in Iran's higher education system The method of qualitative research is a historical type that has tried to use available resources and documentation and interviews with experts in the field of curriculum and higher education, the course of the development of curriculum in five dimensions as process, as a system, as an academic field , As a profession and as a knowledge in the periods of pragmatism, religious-cultural, centralization, decentralization, Islamicization, evolution in the humanities with an analytical view. The field of research was all texts, researches and documents related to the curriculum and the results of the interview with the key knowledge of the field of education and curriculum. And the tools used for collecting information and articles related to the subject matter were research files that were all made by the researcher. The results show that the curriculum has gone through different orientations in the excellent ambiance system. The experience gained from the courses of academic curriculum before and after the Islamic Revolution is the transition from a relatively independent curriculum during the pre-revolutionary period to a centralized extremist system after the revolution, in the cultural-religious period, and centralization, and to head toward the divestiture The relative authority of the curriculum is in the period of decentralization.

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The Journal of New Thoughts on Education
Volume 14, Issue 2 - Serial Number 48
September 2018
Pages 41-76

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