Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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PhD in educational sciences, curriculum planning, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran÷
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Faculty member of Educational Management and Planning, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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Associate professor, Division of Research and Assessment, Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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Faculty member of Curriculum Planning, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The aim of the current research was to identify the criteria of the self-development program of academic faculty members' competencies to guide student theses and theses. According to the main purpose of the research, the grounded theory method was used. The field of research was the faculty members of Tehran University, and the theoretical saturation of the data was achieved by using theoretical sampling in the 25th interview. Atlas TI software was used to analyze the research data. The findings of the research showed that the criteria of the self-development program were identified as the central category of the study, and the causal factors included the professor's commitment and the university's supervision, the up-to-dateness of the professors, and the skill of the research process. Also, the strategies include the formation of the research council in terms of form and title, moving towards writing excellent theses and treatises, dynamic environment and sufficient facilities and contextual factors including differences in fields, the university professor as an actor, the vision of the self-development program, how to implement the self-development program and Intervening factors include experience gathering from veteran professors, attention to the policy element in the self-development program and the transformation of politics into a self-development program, and the consequences include the way of looking at writing theses and dissertations, empowerment of students, empowerment of faculty members, empowerment of universities, faculties and educational groups, awareness The science of individuals, the doctoral thesis as the intellectual birth of a doctoral student, creating a background instead of riding on a background, moving towards doing cluster specialized doctoral theses, paying attention to the quality of research works, not their quantity, and specialized doctoral dissertations for tomorrow and future generations.
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