Identifying the Components of Obstacles to the Application of Humanities in Order to Provide a Suitable Model

The purpose of the present research is to investigate and identify the components of obstacles to the application of humanities in order to provide a suitable model from the point of view of professors of higher education centers of Yasouj University.

The current research is a type of qualitative research that was conducted by field interview and survey methods. The data collection method in this research was a combination of library and field studies, and the data collection tools were interviews with experts and questionnaires. In this research, in the qualitative part, by examining the interviews of 25 professors and faculty members of humanities fields in Yasouj University, who were selected by purposeful sampling; effective variables that included 10 categories and 52 codes; was identified. Also, interviews and coding have been analyzed using the Foundation's data method and NVIVO software. To validate the model based on the criteria extracted from the qualitative section, the opinions of all the faculty members of Yasouj University humanities fields have been used. The total statistical population was 452 people. Based on Cohen's table, 181 people were selected purposefully.

The results obtained from the open coding of the qualitative research data show that 52 open codes were extracted in the form of 10 categories of support barriers, economic-financial, cultural, political, structural, practical, motivational, individual, psychological, and educational barriers. The results show that from the point of view of the respondents, support barriers are ranked first, educational barriers are ranked second, and structural barriers are ranked third.

The results of this research show that the current quality of higher education in general and the quality of humanities in particular is strongly influenced by the set of factors and conditions of the external and internal environment of academic centers.