Promoters and Deterrents of Institutionalizing Meta Cognitive Theory in Agricultural Education System in Iran

Today, psychologists believe that the factors that have caused the lack of Specialization and skills in the learners of higher education centers, and especially agricultural higher education, Lack of knowledge and understanding of the principles and foundations of meta-cognition and non-implementation and its use in teaching and learning topics. Regarding this, current paper was focused to identify and prioritize the promoter and deterrent factors of the institutionalization of meta-cognitive theory in the agricultural education system qualitatively.
The population of the research was the experts in the field of educational science and Meta cognition, which were collected through deep individual interviews to identify and specify the propulsion and preventive factors(18 individual interviews). Selection of skilled snowball techniques was conducted in different fields of agriculture and education. Each of the respondents answered to open questions in meetings that lasted 15 minutes, The results of data analysis which was based granded theory in the form of three stages of open, axial and selective coding led to identification of eight groups of individual and behavioral factors, planning, Extensional, cultural, environmental, family and motivational as the propulsion ( 100 items) and three categories of deterred factors Subjective, psychological, and educational (33 items).