A Model for comparative Teacher Education Systems

This research was aimed at drawing a model for the comparative of teacher education systems. The method of doing research is Grounded Theory. Data collection tools are interviews, researcher-made checklist, scientific texts such as book, article, thesis and ...In addition to the study population including 20 books, 45 papers and 30 theses, 16 professors, staff and senior officials of Farhangian University were selected by Snowball method, and had the researcher reach the informative saturation. The results of the analysis of the interviews and the study of the background in the teacher education systems led to the conceptual modeling, in which there are 12 categories in 3 dimensions: background factors, internal factors, intermediate factors. Background factors include categories: geographic, historical, political, social, economic and cultural, which has 42 subcategories. Then internal factors include the following: components of the teacher education system, curriculum, student attraction, which has 53 subcategories. Next, the middle factors include the categories: change requirements, modeling, localization, which has 23 subcategories. This model will help comparative researchers in the teacher education system to pay attention to all aspects of the comparative studies.