March 2015 Vol. 3 No.3

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Original Research Article

Application of constructivist curricula in higher education in Iran

Meimanat Abedini Baltork^1*, Ahmadreza Nasresfahani², Mehdi Mohammadi³ and Ebrahim Salehi Omran⁴

¹PhD Student in Curriculum Development, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
²Professor, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
³Associate Professor, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
⁴Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran

*Corresponding Author’s E-mail: Abedini.gilan@gmail.com

Accepted March 24, 2015

Abstract

Constructivism is a learning theory describing the process of knowledge construction; Knowledge construction is an active, rather than a passive process. Given the importance of this approach in education, especially higher education, the purpose of the present study is to evaluate the degree of constructivist curriculum application at Shiraz University. The results indicated that from the standpoint of higher education students, their classes are 3.11 regarding content and it is above theoretical mean 3 and this difference is significant at 0.01 levels. Therefore, it is above the criterion mean. The factor of evaluation is 2.90 and lower than theoretical mean 3 and significant at 0.01 levels, so it is lower than criterion level; however, the factors of objective and learning strategies didn't show a significant difference with theoretical mean, therefore it is at criterion level.

Keywords: Constructivism, Content, Evaluation, Goal, Higher education, Strategies teaching and learning