فهرست مطالب

نشریه پژوهش و نگارش کتب دانشگاهی
سال پانزدهم شماره 2 (پیاپی 24، بهار و تابستان 1390)

  • تاریخ انتشار: 1390/05/20
  • تعداد عناوین: 7
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  • Ahmad Ahmadi Pages 7-15
    One of the most famous Shia prayer-books is Mafateeh-al-Jenan (keys to paradises)that includes a large number of prayers, invocations and Ziaaraat-scripts (texts ofsalutation and supplication used by pilgrims of sacred sites and shrines), collectedby the late Haj Sheikh Abbas Ghomi (may God bless him). Since 1349 Anno Hegirae (c.1930 AD), this book has been repeatedly translated to Persian. Among itstranslations, the work of our dear brother Hujjat al-Islam Mousavi Damghani(published both by Behnashr Publishing Co. and Mashreqein Publishing Co.), aswell as Master Mohammad Bagher Kamareii' s translation (published by Culture andArt Entrepreneur's Publishing Co.) have been more popular for many years. Thisarticle studies a few items of these two translations from a critical aspect.
  • Ahmad Samiee Pages 16-24
    Research activities are carried out at two academic and national levels, aimed at thesmall community of academicians and wide public readers respectively. This articledeals with planning for research activities at the national level. It concerns withquestions such as reasons and uses of planning as well as the aims of suchresearches. To this end, it is necessary to creatively use previous studies andexperiences. In particular, the article underlines the necessity to examine theactivities of the modernists during the Constitutional Revolution and the intellectualsactive in the years following September 1941 at national level, and the convergenceof the French philosophers and Encyclopedists of the 18th century, and the Russianthinkers of the 19th century at global level, as well as the contemporary profoundsocial and political changes and the increasing development of knowledge andtechnology.
  • Atefeh Ferdosipour, Ali Delavar Pages 25-45
    This study aims to compare the different types of expository texts and text schemataamong students majoring in psychology and education. The subjects, being selectedthrough stratified random sampling, included 300 students of Tehran stateuniversities. The study involves a two-way factorial design (3×4). The subjects wererandomly assigned into experimental groups. The instrumentation of the studyincludes texts, text comprehension questionnaire, and attitude questionnaire. Thecollected data were analyzed by applying a two-way ANOVA and a follow up test.The statistical analysis indicated that text schemata (explanation, description,analysis) would affect reading comprehension.
  • Masoud Kiani, Hasan Rastegarpour , Mostafa Sharif Pages 46-66
    Textbooks, one of the most popular forms of instructional media, are used to teachstudents at the most levels and in the most subject areas. The purpose of thisresearch is to evaluate the role of graphic in designing and preparing universitytextbooks in order to present an applied model. This study also involvesconsideration of the effect of the demographical variables (gender, age, academicfield, academic terms and Average) in student's viewpoint to examine graphicaldesign of university textbooks. A descriptive method and a visual content analysiswere performed in this research. Therefore, in this study two statistical procedureswere conducted. The first procedure includes an evaluation of graphical designs ofthe university textbooks by 267 students from psychology and educational sciencefaculty of Tarbiat Moalem University. The second procedure includes the visualcontent analysis of 40 books on behavioral and educational Science areas publishedby international publishers such as: John Wiley & Sons, McGraw-Hill, Rutledge andSAGE. The information gathering tools were a graphical design questionnaires and achecklist. The questionnaire was implemented and all the data were analyzed andalpha coefficient was computed. The reliability coefficients obtained were: 0.60 forCover Design Factor, 0.82 for Text Design Factor, 0.83 for Picture And TableDesign Factor, 0.88 for Photography and Portrait Design Factor and 0/74 for PageDesign Factor. The analysis of data was performed at two levels: the first levelinvolved the descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean and standarddeviation. The second level involved the inferential statistics including One SampleT Test, Friedman test and Chi-Square test. The result of the first study showed thatstudent's viewpoint of graphical designs of textbooks was significantly below theaverage level considered for the study (p≤0.01). Moreover demographic variablessuch as gender, age, academic field, academic terms and Average of the studentswere significantly influential on their evaluation of graphical designs of universitytextbooks (p≤0.05). The visual design examination of the foreign textbooks showedthat in graphical designing of the textbooks a plethora of principles and factorsshould be considered.
  • Bahram Mohsenpour Pages 67-80
    This paper first discusses how Western-originated educational science wasintroduced into the higher education system of the Islamic societies especially Iran,and then it deals with some of the deficiencies of the textbooks compiled anddeveloped according to the Western schools of thought by the Iranian scholars.Furthermore, it reviews the steps taken towards revision of textbooks in the abovementionedfield in recent decades in Iran. Finally, the paper proposes someguidelines for the development of educational science university textbooks. Theseguidelines are as follows: 1) Testing psychological and educational theories withinthe cultural contexts of our societies. 2) Criticizing Western psychological andeducational schools presented in our textbooks. 3) Formulating theories inspired bythe Islamic sources. 4) Presenting native research findings in university textbooks.
  • Eissa Rezae, Shabnam Nasre, Mohammad Armand Pages 81-94
    Connectivism is considered as the modern paradigm of the digital age. The theoryhas challenged behaviorist, cognitive, and constructive learning theories, andregarding the necessities of the digital age, it seems more effective than otherlearning theories. As Siemens argues, such theories have been formulated in an agewhen learning was not dominated by modern technology. But in recent decades,technology has reorganized the style of life, communication and learning, anddeveloped new trends in the realm of learning. Siemens believes that education, as afield, has been always slow in both recognizing the impact of modern learning tools,and those environmental changes that are meaningful to learning. Therefore, hethinks that connectivism theory is a proper and timely reaction by educationaliststowards the present situation of society and its current technologies. This articlestudies the theoretical and applied notions of connectivism theory and among them,selects the most important ones for discussion.
  • Vali Rezai Pages 95-110
    Compiling textbooks has always been a significant subject, but at the present time itgains more importance due to the increasing development of science and technologyas well as the expansion of higher education in the country. In fact, in order to meetthe growing needs for educational materials, authors swiftly put together textbooksby translating foreign sources. This process causes many problems such ascomplexity, ambiguity, redundancy and uncommon structures. We have frequentlyexperienced the frustration of students in reading such books because of theirincapability of grasping the message. In fact, this confusion deals with writing andlinguistic shortcomings rather than scientific complexity. In a nutshell, this paperdiscusses the principles of written standard Persian, the appropriate style and registerof scientific texts, and the proper usage of general and technical vocabularies inthese textbooks. It also explores the principles of text linguistics including cohesion,coherence, acceptability, informativeness, intentionality, contextuality andintertextuality and their applications in compiling university textbooks.