The identification of the factors affecting credentialism in the higher education system of Iran
Nasrin Karimi Asl
1
(phhd candidate in the field of higher education management ،Department of Higher Education Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
hamidreza araste
2
(Professor, Department of Educational Management, Faculty of Management, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran)
kamran mohamadkhani
3
(Associate Professor, Department of Higher Education Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
Mostafa Edjtehadi
4
(Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran)
Keywords: Degree orientation, Central degree, Content analysis, Universities, Higher education system,
Abstract :
The purpose of this research was to identify the factors influencing degree orientation in the country's higher education. The research method is the qualitative content analysis method of the document analysis type, and it is classified in the field of applied research. The statistical population of the research included research articles related to degree orientation in the country's higher education. The number of 15 articles in the 20-year period from 1380 to 1400 was selected using the purposeful sampling method. After selecting the research articles, in order to analyze the qualitative data obtained from the analysis of the research documents, open coding and axial coding and selective encoding were used. In the first stage 330 concepts were identified. In the second stage, all the identified concepts were classified into 24 more general components and finally the factors affecting degree orientation in the higher education system can be divided into 3 main categories of political and structural conditions (6 components), the country's scientific and educational environment (10 components) and social and cultural conditions (8 components) were classified. Some of those factors are rooted in the educational system and the scientific environment of the country, as well as the structure and function of the university and the management methods of the university. One part is rooted in the structural and political system and is caused by the functional bias of the trustee and government institutions, and the other part is rooted in the social and cultural system.
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