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Faculty Challenges and Barriers for Research and Publication in Tajik Higher Education

European Education, 2018

This article investigates the current state of faculty research activity within Tajik higher education institutions (HEIs), where the level of research productivity has substantially decreased in the past three decades. As part of a larger ethnographic study on professional lives of Tajik faculty members, we investigated and found enormous challenges to conducting research and becoming active researchers reported by our respondents. We analyze and discuss how such issues may challenge the development of higher education in the country.

Faculty Researchers and Non-Researchers in the Context of Teaching Performance and Personal Profile 1

2015

Every Higher Education Institution needs to develop faculty researchers from its faculty line up who can share their time and expertise to produce research outputs while performing their responsibilities as classroom teachers and sometimes as school managers. This study aims to compare the result of faculty performance evaluation from students and the faculty profile when they are categorized based on their research involvement. Descriptive type of research method with inferential statistics using Chi-square test and Guttman’s Coefficient of predictability as statistical tools was utilized to describe the result of the study. Results showed that there are more female master’s degree holders with hourly rate from Php 251 to 350 who have active research involvement than males and bachelor’s degree and doctorate degree holders. Faculty researchers have significantly higher performance evaluation rating from the students compared to non-researchers. Those with higher Instructional and D...

The comparison of faculty members’ research activities in state and Islamic Azad Universities of Tehran city, with the purpose of presenting methods for faculty members’ empowerment

Educational Measurement and Evaluation Studies, 2017

This study aims to compare the research activities of faculty members in state and Islamic Azad universities of Tehran city in order to propose solutions for empowering them. The research Method is quantitative based on data collection and is descriptive-Survey based on its procedure. A researcher-made checklist was prepared including 32 items for evaluating professors’ research status. In addition, Spreitzer’s standard questionnaire (Reliability 0/906) was prepared to identify their empowerment status. The Statistical population of this study consisted of all full-time faculty members at state and Islamic Azad universities in Tehran city at 2014-2015 academic year, which were about 4685 and 2602 individuals, respectively in state and Islamic Azad universities. Accordingly, a sample of 487 and 390 individuals were chosen by Multistage Cluster sampling from each category. Data analysis, which was done by means of T-tests in SPSS software, revealed a desirable status for faculty members’ research activities; however, faculty members at state university had a better status.

FACULTY RESEARCHERS AND NON-RESEARCHERS IN THE CONTEXT OF TEACHING PERFORMANCE AND PERSONAL PROFILE

— Every Higher Education Institution needs to develop faculty researchers from its faculty line up who can share their time and expertise to produce research outputs while performing their responsibilities as classroom teachers and sometimes as school managers. This study aims to compare the result of faculty performance evaluation from students and the faculty profile when they are categorized based on their research involvement. Descriptive type of research method with inferential statistics using Chi-square test and Guttman's Coefficient of predictability as statistical tools was utilized to describe the result of the study. Results showed that there are more female master's degree holders with hourly rate from Php 251 to 350 who have active research involvement than males and bachelor's degree and doctorate degree holders. Faculty researchers have significantly higher performance evaluation rating from the students compared to non-researchers. Those with higher Instructional and Diagnostic expertise among faculty members showed higher possibility of becoming faculty researcher. Faculty members may also be required to write books or instructional manuals as a form of research output. If they will be written their own material to be utilized in their own respective classes, mastery or the subject expertise may be fully achieved. They were encouraged to conduct more funded researches from the government and private agencies during the transition period of the Philippine Education in the K-12 implementation.

Academic Freedom : Perceptions of Academics in Turkey Akademik Özgürlük : Türkiye ’ deki Akademisyenlerin Algıları Aydın

2015

This study aimed to discover the perceptions of academics in Turkey in regards to academic freedom. It was conducted qualitatively and 30 academics at public and foundation universities were interviewed. According to the results, academics think that academic freedom was not defined well in the current higher education management system and while defining it, they stressed the “function and constraints of research.” Moreover, most academics were not satisfied with implementations and stated that it decreased in this manner. Furthermore, academics revealed that neo-liberal discussions about the role of universities caused a transformation in academic freedom perceptions, and they encountered limitations in accessing financial resources and support while doing research studies. Most academics advised full participation in faculty boards and governing bodies.

Çelik, S. (2012). The role of foreign-educated scholars in Turkey's higher education system: A narrative study of two English language teacher educators. Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry, 3(3), 56-70.

Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry, 2012

In recent decades, the Republic of Turkey has undertaken a program of reform aimed at modernizing its higher education system. This endeavor has included a comprehensive restructuring of the nation’s public universities. In order to meet the urgent need for highly qualified faculty members to staff its state-run higher education institutions, the Ministry of National Education (MoNE) has turned to a government-sponsored study abroad program through which competitively selected individuals receive funding to pursue graduate degrees at North American and European universities in exchange for service in the Turkish university system. However, due to significant non-return rates of sponsored students and a lack of transparency within the program, its goals have been closely scrutinized; amid these concerns, the contributions of those who do return appear in some cases to go unnoticed. Thus, in order to illuminate the experiences of returning scholars, this study explored the accounts of two English language teachers who received doctoral degrees from foreign institutions, then returned to Turkey to serve as teacher educators. Critical theory was utilized in order to investigate the oppressive power relationships inherent in the Turkish higher education system. The results revealed that as much as these foreign-educated scholars contributed to their respective universities, their ability to provide lasting benefits to Turkish education was minimized by the systemic and bureaucratic barriers they encountered; therefore, the higher education system was unable to achieve the desired goals of the study abroad program.

The strategies of faculty development based on their role and learning styles in the Iranian University of Medical Sciences

Research Square (Research Square), 2022

In this study, we aimed to explain the strategies of faculty development based on their role and learning styles at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. We conducted a qualitative content analysis study in 2021 by purposive, snowball sampling, with a maximum variation of age and experience levels of faculty members. Eighteen participants were enrolled in this study, and data collection consisted of two phases of semi-structured interviews and brainstorming group technique. Data were categorized into two themes and six related subthemes, based on their similarities and differences after frequent summarization. The second theme was the best strategies in empowering the teacher with four sub-themes, including problem-based learning, integration of methods, evaluation-based education, and scholarship in education (PIES), which explains the strategies that can support the development of teachers in medical sciences. PIES could explain the practical strategies that can support the development of teachers in medical sciences.

The gendered nature of career development of university professors: the case of Turke

This paper examines the gendered nature of the careers of university professors in Turkey, where 23% of professors are women. This proportion is relatively high compared to Western Europe and the United States, indicating that Turkey is an important country in which to study women and mens professorial careers in academic institutions. The paper draws on original documentary sources and a qualitative study of Turkish professors. It demonstrates how the interplay between state policy and the dominant family ideology has enabled and constrained both women and mens careers, but in different ways. The paper also suggests that the progress made towards women's hierarchical equality may in the future be threatened by the current transformation of the university sector in Turkey.