Educational Development of Judishapur

Educational Development of Judishapur

Identifying and Measuring the Component of internationalization of Islamic Azad University of Mazandaran

Authors
Seyedeh Sedigheh Tahmasebzadeh 1
vahid Fallah 2
Reza Yousefi 2
1 Student of Ph.D, Department of educational administration, college of Human Science, Sari branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran.
2 Faculty Member in Department of educational administration, college of Human Science, Sari branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari,iran
Abstract
In this regard, the purpose of the present study is presenting a model for internationalization of Islamic Azad University of Mazandaran. The population of the study in qualitative part includes faculty members of Islamic Azad University of Mazandaran. Among them, the sample was selected according to purposive sampling and 13 person’s saturation method. The second group of the study population includes all (1606) faculty members of Islamic Azad University of Mazandaran. The sample size of 310 was selected by Stratified random sampeling method. Data collection was done by library method. semi-structured interviews (qualitative part) and questionnaire (quantitative part) was used. The results indicated that the researched made questionnaire was valid and reliable. Data analysis was done through content analysis. According to the study research questions, descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, frequency distribution tables and charts) and inferential statistics (exploratory factor analysis and one sample t-test) were used in quantitative part using SPSS and Lisrel soft wares. The results of the study indicated that the components of internationalization of universities are education, research, communication, economic, political, cultural and structural. Also finding showed that Cultural component in good condition, but the rest of the components have not a good situation.
Keywords
globalization
university international component
global education
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Educational Development of Judishapur
Volume 8, Issue 1
Summer 2017
Pages 93-100