University Textbooks; Research and Writting

University Textbooks; Research and Writting

Identification the Indices of Desirable goals regarding the Humanity Courses for Universities and the Extent of attention to

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
mostafa bagherian far 1
Ahmad Reza Nasr Esfahani 2
mohammad reza Ahanchian 3
1  Ph.D Candidate of Curriculum Studies in higher education, University of Isfahan, Faculty of Education and Psychology.
2 Professor, Department of Education, University of Isfahan, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Isfahan, Iran.
3 Professor, Department of educational management and human resource development, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Mashhad, Iran.
10.30487/rwab.2021.130841.1405
Abstract
The present study is aimed towards identification the indices of desirable goals with regard to the Humanity Courses for universities and the extent to which these indices are taken into consideration. In the present study, exploratory mixed-methods research was used. In the quantitative section, Phenomenology method and in the quantitative section, a descriptive-survey method was employed. For the qualitative section, we administered quasi-structured interviews with 20 distinguished and qualified experts and faculty members of universities having their expertise in curriculum and goals. Also, 360 of the students of universities comprised the quantitative statistical population. This number of participants was selected using multistage cluster sampling method. To examine the reliability of interview questions and questionnaires, we recruited formal and content reliability. And, we used Cronbach's alpha coefficients to evaluate the validity of our questionnaires. We also employed in the qualitative analysis, the structural and interpretative method was administered in the quantitative analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics was also used to assess the data. The results indicated that the interviewees outlined ten indices as the salient indices of goals and it can be argued that the recognized indices can be used to assess and revise the goals of courses in different majors of the humanities. The quantitative findings also indicated that the range and degree of attention to the goal indices seem to be less than desirable which seem to require far more significant attention.
Keywords
goals
curriculum
the Humanity Courses in universities
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