Current Initiatives in Educating Morally Prospective Teachers of Farhangian University (Providing a Model with a grounded theory approach)

The purpose of this study is to investigate the current status of the curriculum for prospective teachers’ ‌moral education. This research was conducted implementing a qualitative approach and using grounded theory. The statistical population includes all the agents involved in designing the curriculum of moral education of prospective teachers who were selected through criterion based purposive sampling. Data were obtained through semi-structured interviews with ten would-be teachers, three graduate students of the university, eight professors of moral education courses, four supervisors and three deputies and cultural affairs officials of Farhangian University. The city of Birjand was collected. In order to analyze the data, open, axial and selective coding methods were used. Lincoln and Cuban criteria were used to ensure validity and reliability