Educating Deck Officers in the IRI's Army Navy (IRIAN): Designing a Model upon Empowerment Approach

Contemporarily sea is of a critical significance in growth and life of nations. The national interests of the countries possessing sea is directly concerned to their demands, needs, capability and culture in such a way that they are achieved in the format of naval strategy. Meanwhile, given the speeches of the supreme leader as "The navy is a strategic force which should be looked to from a strategic perspective", the present study, given the strategic mission of navy, aims to discuss the inappropriateness of the existing model for educating the deck officers and to develop a model based on empowerment approach. As a developmental and applied research, it was conducted in the training centers of armed forces in Tehran as well as in bases of IRIAN in a combined manner and in the format of exploratory and developmental plans. The population of this study is made up of two expert societies (internal and external) and the overall society of deck specialists. The sampling from experts was conducted upon criterion sampling and from the overall society of specialists, it was conducted upon cluster sampling. The data of the study was gathered through semistructured interview and a researcher-planned questionnaire and then the data were analysed through content-analysis and modeling of structural equations. In the end, the model for indoctrination and education of deck officers is presented with three dimensions, 21 constituents and 102indicators.