Sustainable School in the Islamic Republic of Iran: A Multiple methods Qualitative Approach

Document Type : Qualitative Research Paper

Authors

1 Associate Professor, Department of education & psychology, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

2 PhD Student, Educational Administration, Department of education & psychology, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

3 Professor, Department of education & psychology, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.34785/J010.2021.033

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to design a model for sustainable school in Islamic Republic of
Iran. The method of the research was multi-method qualitative including: the meta-synthesis
method & case study. Data gathering resources were all researches in the case of sustainable
school for the period from 2005 until 2020. These researches were selected by intensity case
sampling of targeted sampling approach .In this section, qualitative content analysis was used
for data gathering. The findings of this section revealed some part of sustainable school model.
In the case study, the potential participants to be interviewed were the experienced natives,
and Iran’s upstream documents and the declarations of the revolution leaders were surveyed.
Key informants to be interviewed were selected by standard targeted sampling method. Data
gathering method in this section were semi structured interviews with key informants and
document mining. The findings of this research was the model of sustainable school in Islamic
Republic of Iran which consists of inputs(teacher and executive staff, curriculum, space &
equipment, & policies), processes(teaching, learning, management & planning),
subsystems(individual, structural, political & cultural) , outputs(student with sustainable
development approach & a sustainable school model) and characteristics of them in the form
of a social system. The result of this research showed that for achieving the intended outputs,
all the inputs, processes and subsystems should have appropriate characteristics.

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