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Scientific disciplines evolve based on the modern needs of societies and curriculum is no exception. One of the recent concepts introduced in the curriculum area is curriculum counseling. Explaining and conceptualizing this concept could facilitate the improvement of the learning level and realizing the objectives of the curriculum. In this study, curriculum counseling was discussed as a new concept in curriculum studies. The approach employed in this research was qualitative with systematic review. The research data was collected through library studies and documentation. The findings of this study indicated that the concept of counseling curriculum has its theoretical basis and ground in new conceptualists’ theories, including phenomenology theory and autobiography of the curriculum. In addition, curriculum counseling could play an important role in improving the level of learning and the teaching-learning methods, and particularly the development and enhancement of learner personality within the framework of curriculum. Counseling and psychology could cooperate effectively in curriculum studies in order to achieve curriculum counseling goals. 

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The present study aims at determining teachers’ professional qualifications in “the learning approach to knowing” and presenting executive strategies for realization of this approach. The research employs an exploratory mixed-method research. The population in the qualitative part of the research consists of experts of education and in the quantitative part includes all high school teachers of Districts 2 and 3 of Isfahan. To select participants in both parts, the purposive sampling technique was used; in the qualitative part, 20 experts were employed using the chain purposive sampling method, and in the quantitative part, teachers with MA/MSc and PhD degrees of Isfahan City were selected. To collect data in the qualitative part, semi-structured interviewing technique, and in the quantitative part, a researcher-made questionnaire with 14 scales of professional qualifications for teachers were usedualitative findings were analyzed suing content analysis of interviews, and quantitative findings were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.
 

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This paper reports  employability skills determination using exploratory blended method from the viewpoint of the experts of higher education, graduates, the workforce and experts in the field of employability .Sampling method in the qualitative section was purposeful and theoretical sampling. The qualitative data collection was carried out through in-depth interviews and constant comparison of the findings with the research literature and analyzed with Glaser model. The statistical population consisted of faculty members of Tehran universities (N= 335). . In this research, 66 components of employability were identified which were categorized into three main categories of general knowledge and skills, and knowledge and specialized skills of the field, knowledge and skills related to the work environment , personal attitudes . The teamwork and group work component was recognized as the most important component of employability.

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This study tries to formulate elements of practice -based curriculum in Iranian higher education from the perspective of education specialists with an interpretive approach. The research approach used is a qualitative methodology that has conducted semi-structured interviews with 21 academic actors. The data obtained from the interviews have been analyzed based on the research theory of the grounded theory in the form of three stages of open coding, axial coding and selective coding. The result was the determination of the elements of the practice-based curriculum model in seven elements: purpose, content, teaching-learning strategies, materials and resources, teaching-learning opportunities, learning environment conditions and evaluation. Each of these elements has components

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The purpose of this study was to identify the essential components of employability of civil engineering graduates, which is applied in terms of purpose and field type in terms of data collection, and according to purpose of the research, a qualitative phenomenological method has been used. The statistical population includes professional civil engineers under the title of employers in field of civil engineering and the method of targeted sampling by snowball method has been used to collect samples of 20 people. The interview data collection method was semi-structured and categorization was used to analyze the findings. The method of validating the interview data was of internal validity type. The results showed that according to civil engineering employers, the most important components of employability in the field of civil engineering included 6 components, which are theoretical and specialized knowledge, interdisciplinary knowledge, practical and technical knowledge, , job skills and engineering insight.

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The purpose of this research was to investigate the views of experts in relation to the personal theorizing and its role in teaching excellence. In this regard, among the professors who had scientific experience and works were selected and interviewed. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview. Interviews were conducted face-to-face and virtual. After coding, the collected data was analyzed using the categorization method. The results showed that from the point of view of most of the professors, having experience, knowledge and scientific awareness are among the prerequisites for personal theorizing. Also, the professors believed that the relationship between general theories and personal theorizing is in three forms: whole to part, integrated, and technical-artistic. According to the professors' point of view, increasing knowledge and improving professors' performance are the most important opportunities, and the lack of experience of professors is the most important challenge to personal theorizing.

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The aim of this study was to identify the dimensions and components of teacher professional development according to the patterns and models of teacher professional development.The approach of the present study is qualitative and its method is meta-combination based on the model of Ervin et al(2011).The research community consists of 276 scientific-research articles published in prestigious scientific journals that in the period of 1392 and 2008 have been in the field of professional development of teachers and provide a model in this field. The research sample includes 29 studies that have been purposefully collected and selected based on thematic monitoring of data.The dimensions and components of professional development were classified into 5 dimensions and 22 axes. These dimensions include individual,organizational,socio-cultural,strategic,contextual and obstacles and challenges. By considering these axes, educational policy makers can provide the basis for improving and designing a local model of professional development for teachers.