Designing the Curriculum model for the Elementary education field at Farhangian University, based on the Fundamental Reform Document of Education

Abstract

The current research aims to design the curriculum model for the elementary education field of Farhangian University based on the fundamental reform document of education. The current research is applied in terms of purpose and with a qualitative approach of the grounded theory method has designed the curriculum of the elementary course of Farhangian University based on the FRDE. The theoretical foundations and studies and background related to the curriculum of the elementary education course of Farhangian University were first compiled based on the FRDE to collect information. Then interviews were used to collect information, which includes professors who are experts in the curriculum of elementary education field of Farhangian University from Farhangian University of Tabriz, Tehran University, Mazandaran, Khorasan, and Qom, whose were selected through the focus group using the purposeful sampling (n=34). Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed during three stages of coding (open, axial, and selective) by Strauss and Corbin (1992). As a result, curriculum design based on educational knowledge and educational subject in the primary education field of Farhangian University was a central category, which was obtained based on the causal conditions of "research content", "teaching and evaluation method" and through the strategies of "student-oriented research incentives" and "establishing the relationship between students with scientific resources" and considering the characteristics of the receivers (as a role model) including the motivation, attitude, and values of the receivers and the development of research skills. Then, the reliability of this model was checked and confirmed by experts. The current research is a model for designing the elementary education curriculum of Farhangian University based on the FRDE, which increases students' life skills, strengthen students' critical and creative thinking and their academic progress, as regular consequences of the implementation of curriculum based on educational knowledge and educational subject.