نشریه پژوهش های کیفی در برنامه درسی
پیاپی 4 (پاییز 1395)

The main objective of this study was to investigate Eisner´s theoretical foundations thoughts one of the leading specialists and experts in curriculum studying. After a brief reference to the main axes of Eisner´s ideas, his theoretical foundations and their implications had been discussed. Then, while criticizing some of his ideas, we tried to address both subjects using analytical documents. Results indicate that Eisner´s approach to religion caused to his understanding that religion cannot turn into a tenable theory. Although there are backgrounds that different ideas can enter religion and religious dogmatism by his own ideology, as one of the existing ideologies, has been effective because of that. Also according to Eisner approach to curriculum in three ways, behaviorist idea, problem solving and result revealed aesthetic)) and his emphasis on growth and learner´s educational excellence, it seems that this view should be on a continuum. Actually the idea of revealing results (insightful, creative and aesthetic) is the same paradigm that religion emphasizes on. Results of the study show that according to Eisner´s attention to pragmatism and somehow progressivism, he is among postmodern thinkers as well. His philosophy was influenced by Dewey, Whitehead, Brody and Herbert Reed.

Developing and validating of the competency-based curriculum model for MA in curriculum course The aim of this study was to develop and validate the competency-based curriculum model for MA in curriculum course. In this study, methods of qualitative content analysis, documentary research and descriptive-inferential were used. The sample for data collection is 9 curriculum experts and 45 documents in relation to competency-based curriculum that were purposefully selected. Data collection techniques were the individual semi-structured interviews with experts and the qualitative document analysis. The findings showed competency-based curriculum elements features according to the objectives, content, learning activities and evaluation methods, then primary model of competency-based curriculum designed. So the process, procedures and how to providing competency-based curriculum model, resulted from the preceding studies on the subject.This model was validated by experts and mediators that have been done. The results of this study could be used in designing competency-based curriculum.

The aim of this paper is to review integration experience in general dentistry curriculum in the world universities in the twenty-first century and advantage of it to review the same curriculum in Iran. In this study, a qualitative method is used. First, by library research and the analysis and interpretation of data, integration of the dental curriculum were some prestigious universities in the world. Then an image of the situation of Iran was present. In the end of, examined the ways of using international experience to improve the curricula of dental in Iran. Findings show that two types of dental curriculum integration in the first decade of the twenty-first century have been used: horizontal and vertical integration. In terms of numbers vertical integration has more used. Combining the benefits of a long period of six years in dentistry is very significant. It benefits from an educational perspective to facilitate learning, continuing retention, recall and precision speed related application, that each of them is sufficient to review the curriculum of the field. In addition, these empirical grounds, as well as alignment with international pressure and respond to social needs and adapt to labor market conditions, due to the revised curriculum is based on a combination of criteria, necessary and inevitable effects.

According to the role of the textbooks in the concept of gender, this research was conducted by the aim of the investigation on the perception of the female students’ experiences perception on the gender concept in the textbooks. This research is qualitative and it is based on the interpretative paradigm conducted by the phenomenology research. The data were collected by semi-structured interviews with twelve female students of first and second years of Bachelor of Science degree in order to complete data collection. In this study, for measuring of the reliability of the data, the validity and reliability of the data, transferability and dependability were used. For analysis of the interview data Van Mannen method was used. The results of this research are based on three themes of feeling of gender inequality, the role and characteristics of woman and gender inequality consequences. The results show that feeling of gender inequality has two secondary occupational and political themes. Personal role, social role, physical characteristics and emotional characteristics are secondary themes of the role and characteristics of woman and consequences including increase of progress motivation and social dynamicity lead to reducing of the women social status and gender identity crisis.

Henry Giroux considers teachers as transformative intellectuals and believes that teachers possess their own political and ethical roles and have obligatory attempt to materialize radical democracy within and without classroom. They should criticize the purposes, content, approaches and technologies of teaching. Also, they should criticize curriculum knowledge, and discover it’s underneath interests and ideologies. Giroux claims that teachers are one of the resistance resources against reproduction of the dominant system (hegemony) in education, and they can criticize their hegemony by means of breaking borders of dominant curriculum. Teachers should be possessed of enriched cultural studies, too, and study cultural differences and draw attention to them in classroom. They should make opportunities for all of the students so that they can communicate their own culture and history in classroom, and ultimately, by this way they can connect teaching up to their lives and culture. Teachers as common intellectuals, should be committed to establishing social justice and resistance against unequal relations of power, and they should endeavor accompanied by other agents and critics.