A Phenomenographic Reflectionon the Components of Curriculum Implementation in Elementary Schools from viewpoint of School Principals

Document Type : Qualitative Research Paper

Authors

1 Department of Education, Campus, Kharazmi University of Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Educational Sciences, Kharazmi University

Abstract

Abstract:

The study aimed to explain the phenomenographic aspects of program implementation in elementary schools from the perspective of school principals. Therefore, the method of this research was phenomenography. Participants were 15 school leaders who had been selected purposefullyand from available samples.The main tool of this study was the un-structured and semi-structured interviews. All interviews were recorded and immediately typed to provide feedback for subsequent interviews and data saturation. After interviewing the interviewees, the process of data collecting continued until saturation reached. The average duration of each interview was about 50 minutes. To analyze the data, a descriptive-analytic approach was used using coding at open and axial levels. In this research, four main questions and several sub-questions were raised to deepen the process of gathering information. To encode the interviews, ATLAS.ti 7 software was used. A total of 362 codes were extracted, after eliminating the similar codes, 52 codes were finalized and been classified into 13 components, 6 categories and finally 3 main dimensions of teachers, Principals and learning environment. The results indicate that curriculum implementation by looking at these indentified dimensions and categories will impact on enhancing learning and teaching process and so will help to improve the quality of school.
Keywords: Curriculum Implementation; Elementary Schools; School Principals, Phenomenography.

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Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 21 December 2020
  • Receive Date: 02 March 2018
  • Accept Date: 17 January 2019