Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Student, Department of Educational Management, Roudehen Branch, Azad University, Roudehen, Iran.

2 Faculty member, Department of Educational Management, Roudehen Branch, Azad University, Roudehen, Iran

Abstract

The aim of this study was to identify the characteristics of the distinguished school in the education transformation document. The research was fundamental in terms of its purpose and qualitative in terms of the type of data used. The statistical population of the study included managers and staff of the Ministry of Education, general education offices at provincial levels, and different districts of education offices. The sample size in the qualitative phase was determined based on the principle of theoretical saturation thereby 23 people were selected using purposive sampling. In the present study, semi-structured interviews were used to collect the data, and the validity and reliability of both tools were confirmed. Data analysis was performed by coding method. The results showed that the factors that contribute to a distinguished school at the level of the transformation document included moral, social, economic, political, biological / physical, scientific and technological education. Causal conditions in the implementation of the distinguished school at the level of the transformation document included teacher, curriculum, management, educational space and equipment, and information technology, as internal requirements, while Islamic society, media, family, and educational justice were the external requirements. The consequences of implementing a distinguished school at the level of the fundamental transformation document included agility, maturity, and continuous learning.

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