yaser mohammadi; feizullah Monavvarifard; laleh salehi; reza movahedi
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Universities have a moral responsibility for increasing social awareness, knowledge, skills, and values to creating a sustainable future. However, integration sustainable development issues in higher education structure remains in its early stages and faces many challenges. Therefore, identify factors ...
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Universities have a moral responsibility for increasing social awareness, knowledge, skills, and values to creating a sustainable future. However, integration sustainable development issues in higher education structure remains in its early stages and faces many challenges. Therefore, identify factors that affecting on outspread of sustainable higher education are an undeniable fact to achieve to sustainable higher education and overcoming challenges facing the university to achieve sustainability. From 1810 individual of statistical population, 189 students were selected as sample using stratified random sampling (based on gender and degree). A researcher-made questionnaire was the main tool for collecting research data which experts confirmed its validity, and its reliability confirmed by calculating the ordinal theta (θ = 0.83 – 0.91). Data were analyzed using SPSSWin20 and R software. The findings of exploratory factor analysis revealed that seven factors include commitment to sustainability, knowledge, education for sustainability, cooperation and participation, attitude towards sustainability, support from top-managers of university and infrastructures, and organizational culture affecting on university’s activities to achieve to sustainable higher education. Results of ordinal regression indicated that the identified factors are good predictor for outspread of sustainable higher education and in total explained about 52.1% of variances of Sustainable higher education.
laleh salehi; feyzulah Monavarifard; yaser mohamadi
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Entrepreneurial self-efficacy increase entrepreneurship’s abilities to identify the opportunities of entrepreneurial, resources management and deal with existents challenges around the whole of entrepreneurial process. In other side, scholars argued that the curriculum components created different ...
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Entrepreneurial self-efficacy increase entrepreneurship’s abilities to identify the opportunities of entrepreneurial, resources management and deal with existents challenges around the whole of entrepreneurial process. In other side, scholars argued that the curriculum components created different opportunity for students to expanded different side of their entrepreneurial self-efficiency. Nonetheless, still we don’t have enough knowledge about the role of curriculum components as heart of university centers on students’ entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigating impact of curriculum components on students’ Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy in Alborz agricultural technical higher education centers. Statistical population of this research was consisted of 2004 Students; from that 178 students were selected as sample by using stratified random sampling. The main tool of this study was made questioner that its face and content validity confirmed by panel of experts and its construct validity confirmed by using explanatory factor analysis (KMO = 0.724; P= 0. 000). The questioner readability confirmed by ordinal theta. Data was analyzed by SPSS software. Findings of correlation analysis indicated a positive statistically significant relationship between teaching methods, education contents, Educators, evaluation and student entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy. Regulations and physical environment components did not play an important role in Students entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy. Results from ordinal regression analysis indicated that educational content, Educators and teaching methods -based on McFadden statistic- explained 27.4% of the variance of students’ entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy.
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Nourish creativity among students as an essential pillar of knowledge-based development, is fundamental to enhance their competences. On the other hand, experts of creativity domain emphases on action between people and combination of knowledge, idea and information to nourish creativity among students. ...
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Nourish creativity among students as an essential pillar of knowledge-based development, is fundamental to enhance their competences. On the other hand, experts of creativity domain emphases on action between people and combination of knowledge, idea and information to nourish creativity among students. Thus, this study aims to investigate the social capital role on students’ creativity. Statistical population of this research was consisted of 1400 students in Khouzestan Ramin agricultural and natural recourses university; from those 112 students were selected as sample using stratified random sampling. The main tool to collect data was mad questionnaire. Structural Equation Model (SEM) via LISREL8.8 software was used to evaluate validity and reliability of the research questionnaire, and also to examine goodness of the latent variables. Findings of ESM analysis indicated that structural social capital, cognitive social capital and knowledge sharing among students have a direct and significant effect on student’s creativity. While, analysis showed that Communicational social capital don’t have a direct effect on student’s creativity and it effected on student’s creativity within mediation of knowledge sharing variable.
