Presenting an efficient school model for the primary period of public education in Iran

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

Marzieh Aghakhani ¹ , badri shahtalebi ² , محمدعلی نادی ³

1 - Ph.D Student in Educational Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan (Khorasgan) branch, Isfahan, Iran
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan (Khorasgan) branch, Isfahan, Iran
3 - Professor, Department of Educational sciences, Islamic Azad University of Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Isfahan, Iran.

Received: 2024-06-30 Accepted : 2024-09-18 Published : 2024-09-18

Keywords: Efficient School, Iran Education, Data Foundation.,

Abstract :

This research was carried out with the aim of presenting an efficient school model for education in the form of qualitative research tradition of the foundation's data utilization. The tool used in this research is a semi-structured in-depth interview and research participants include experts active in the field of education (including university professors, teachers, school principals, educational leaders and experts) and a non-probability sampling method. It was an opinion. After conducting an exploratory interview with the experts, the collected data were analyzed using the foundation data method based on the Strauss and Corbin model in three stages of open, central and selective coding. The findings of the research showed that the conceptual model of the formation of an efficient school in terms of causal conditions includes the dimensions of changing the sphere of current education, the school as a community, the development of educational discourses, and the development of heterogeneity. In terms of background conditions, including dimensions of the school's problematic nature and the growth of transformational tendencies, in terms of intervening conditions, including dimensions of critical rethinking in education and fundamentalism of education, in terms of strategies, including 4 strategies for facilitating the flow of education, institutionalizing an open system, Educational meaning creation and environmental rearrangement and finally, in terms of consequences, it has 3 personal, social and organizational consequences.

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