Explaining the nature of decision-making levels in the Decentering of the elementary school curriculum: an integrated study

Masouminejad, Dr. Reza; Fathi Azar, Dr. Eskandar; Mahmodi, Dr. Firouz; Adib, Dr. Yousof

Explaining the nature of decision-making levels in the Decentering of the elementary school curriculum: an integrated study

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ PhD in Curriculum Planning, Farhangian University, Tehran, IRAN.

² Professor, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Tabriz, IRAN.

³ Associate Professor, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Tabriz, ,IRAN.

⁴ Professor, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Tabriz, , IRAN.

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify the appropriate levels of decision-making in the process of implementing curriculum liberalization in the elementary school. The research used is qualitative and includes the method of synthesis research (content analysis and documentary study). The research population includes teachers, experts, professors of universities in West Azerbaijan province, as well as scientific documents and texts in the field of decentralization in the 98-97 academic year. In the first population, the samples were purposefully selected and structured interviews were continued until the saturation point of the sample size was 19 people. In the second society, the volume of selected samples includes documents and scientific texts of the last 15 to 20 years. Findings show that appropriate decision levels for curriculum liberalization have four levels: social, academic, institutional and educational, in which the institutional level acts as a link between academic (theoretical) and educational (practical) level decisions. And its performance has a special place from the theoretical-practical (quasi-practical) dimension. In fact, the institutional level, by combining the two levels of decision-making, acts as the final formulator and provider of learning opportunities in the classroom.

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