Presenting an Educational Justice Model to Iran’s Education System

The purpose of this study was to present an educational justice model for education in Iran. The researchers used exploratory mixed  methods. At first, by using inductive content analysis method, and on the basis of the entire field of research that was available in the database from 2001 to 2017, the themes of educational justice in education were identified and were purposively studied and analysed by using analytical method. As a result, based on the analysis, 82 main themes, 12 themes for organizing collective participation, fair decision-making, all-round vision curriculum, meritocracy, covering all audiences, paying attention to the health status of the learners, optimal management of  resources, empowerment of learners, improving the evaluation process, improving the quality of education, and fair interaction, as well as three categories of inclusive theme, including facilitating fair allocation of resources, fair use of resources, and decent meritocracy. According to the identified themes, an 82-item questionnaire was designed to validate the model. The reliability of the questionnaire was assessed using Cronbach's alpha (0.76) and its validity was assessed using factor analysis. In the quantitative part, the research community included all school principals and assistants from across the country with a total of 170,645, from whom 384 people were selected by multi-stage random sampling. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to validate the model of the research. All the themes were confirmed with high factor load that indicated the high validity of the model.