Mandana Farhanak; Ali Asghar Machinchi; Abbas Gholtash; Seyed Ahmad Hashemi
Abstract
Purpose: Educational systems are one of the most important social institutions, and for this reason, the quality of other social institutions depends to a large extent on how they function. Identifying talents and creating the necessary conditions for the flourishing of people in various fields and the ...
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Purpose: Educational systems are one of the most important social institutions, and for this reason, the quality of other social institutions depends to a large extent on how they function. Identifying talents and creating the necessary conditions for the flourishing of people in various fields and the balanced and balanced growth of human beings in various aspects of physical, intellectual, emotional, artistic, etc. is a responsibility that this system must fulfill. Today, the main task of educational systems is to adopt approaches and policies that are appropriate to current and future developments, both from a revolutionary and adaptive perspective, which plays an essential role in the quality of education and learning. Educational systems in every society and country have different functions; one of these functions is the growth and flourishing of students' talents, abilities and artistic and aesthetic capabilities. Regarded to the role of integrated curriculum of arts education in academic success and performance, the aim of this research was presenting of elements pattern of the integrated curriculum of arts education in Farhangian University students.Methodology: The type of research based on the aim was applied and based on the implementation method was exploratory from type qualitative. The research population was the documents and texts of the integrated curriculum of arts education and the curriculum experts of Farhangian University in 2020 year. The research sample were 20 documents and texts related to the title and 28 experts who were selected by purposive sampling method after reviewing the inclusion criteria and according to the principle of theoretical saturation. For data collection were used from take noting and semi-structured interviews methods, which its validity was confirmed by the triangulation method and its reliability was confirmed by the agreement coefficient method between the two coders (r=0.76). Finally, the data were analyzed by content analysis method with a deductive approach.Findings: Based on the theoretical foundations and research background, the elements of the integrated curriculum of art education were identified including four sections of aims, content and learning activities, teaching methods and evaluation. Also, based on the interviews, elements of the integrated curriculum of art education were extracted for all four sections. Finally, the identified elements of both sections of the theoretical foundations and research background and interviews were combined and based on designed elements pattern of the integrated curriculum of arts education in Farhangian University students.Conclusion: According to the elements pattern of the integrated curriculum of arts education in Farhangian University students based on theoretical foundations and research background and interviews, curriculum specialists and planners to improve the educational system can use it in designing the aims, content and learning activities, teaching methods and evaluation.