Professional development model of professors in Islamic Azad University based on contextual analysis

The purpose of the current research is to investigate the current situation of professional development of Islamic Azad University professors. This research was conducted with a qualitative approach and a data-based method. The statistical population includes all agents involved in the professional development of Islamic Azad University professors, who were selected through purposeful criterion-based sampling. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with seventeen professors of Islamic Azad University and nine directors of educational departments of Islamic Azad University. In order to analyze the data, the coding method was used. Lincoln and Cuban criteria were used to ensure validity and reliability. The results of the research show fifteen core concepts and five selected categories, which in the form of a paradigm model include individualistic professional development based on totalitarianism as the central phenomenon of the current situation of professors' professional development, professional development challenges (including Components such as lack of professional development factors, tasteful performance and quantification in professional development programs), professional development procedures and processes (including axes such as strategic knowledge management, attention to Knowledge competences and creation of interactive networks), platforms for the formation of the existing situation (including axes such as extra-organizational, organizational and individual factors) and the consequences of the existing situation (including the components of cultural, educational and managerial consequences) are organized. took