Identifying of key area, dimensions and quality indicators in Iran’s teacher education

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Assistant Professor of education curriculum in Allameh Tabatabaei University.

2 PH.D in education curriculum in Allameh Tabatabaei University.

3 MA of educational curriculum, University of Allameh Tabatabaei.

Abstract

Higher education system of any country for training specialists and teacher training system for specialist teachers has always been particular importance. According to Establishing of Farhangian University and the lack of native quality indicators for teacher education system, this study attempted to identify quality indicators for this important university system. To identify these indicators were used documentary research and reference groups. After gathering and checking the references regarding quality of teacher education system (122 references), 36 references was selected as more appropriate references. This references was reviewed systematically by "Wach and Ward (2013)" method. After multi-stage analyzing of references and extraction of findings, relatively common cases combined and were classified in three main areas, dimensions and quality indicators. In the next step the finding were refined through Farhangian university faculty Suit local conditions of Iran. And finally six main areas (curriculum design, implementation and evaluation of curriculum, research and its dissemination, infrastructure and educational resources, support the advancement of learning, organization and management), twenty-five dimensions and seventy-five quality indicators were identified.

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