identifying the components and growth strategies of the faculty members of farangian university in the field of curriculum planning: Qualitive research

Higher education in every country pursues different aims. One aim of its educational, research-basedsystem is knowledge-production, along with training of human force for economic, social, culturalsectors etc. Curriculum is one factor in improvement of the educational quality of educational systems.The purpose of this study is to identify merits and strategies of the development of FarhangianUniversity faculty members regarding curriculum (among the 9 elements of curriculum only three arerelated to teaching method, content and evaluation). This investigation is a qualitative study and itspopulation includes all Farhangian University instructors. Sampling was done according to the samplingmethods of qualitative studies using criterion-based and network sampling. Analysis of data frominterviews was performed in a number of steps based on theme analysis. To ensure the validity of theresults a peer-review survey was considered. The findings indicate that the merits of the facultymembers regarding the three curriculum elements could be classified into 21 categories. In addition, 5strategies could be used for the development of faculty members.