Restructuring Interdisciplinaries in Higher Education (With emphasis on indicators)
Journal: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities (Vol.6, No. 1)Publication Date: 2014-01-30
Authors : Nader Shahamat; Hamid Reza Arasteh; Fatemeh Shahamat; Maryam Roozagar;
Page : 55-77
Keywords : Interdisciplinary; university; structure; indicator;
Abstract
Academic interdisciplinaries demand their own specific standards of excellence. This study attempts to design a conceptual model and to edit its structural indices in university and descriptive-analytic method is used in it. For this reason, at first conceptual dimensions of the structure have been identified and appropriate indices and criteria have been designed and edited on the basis of those factors. The population survey includes documents and reports exist in information databases that are accessible to the researcher with regard to the research topic, and sampling has been characterized by the use of purposeful sampling. Results of the study reveals that in order to develop an academic interdisciplinary structure one has to pay attention to the five conceptual dimensions Including interdisciplinary philosophy, conditions and situations, selection, balance and mass participation, as well as five main factors in strategies for making interdisciplinary structure which includes: policies, management and organizational structure, infrastructure support, leadership, support and supervision, funding, the officialism. So in this research to create an interdisciplinary structure, factors, specific criteria and indicators were identified and designed.
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