The Requirements and Challenges of Humanities Entrepreneur:Phenomenological Analysis of the Situation of Humanities in Iranian Academic System

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1 Student Allameh Tabataba'i University

2 Associate professor of Allameh Tabataba'i University

3 Associate Professor of Social Sciences Research Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies

4 Assistant Professor and Faculty Member of Department of Educational Sciences, University of Isfahan

Abstract

The present study is conducted with the Purpose of the Phenomenological Study, An analysis of the state of the humanities in the third generation of the Iranian academic system. The method of qualitative research was of exploratory type, with a phenomenological approach. The research community consisted of faculty members and thematic experts in the field of humanities. Sampling method was Convergent Purposeful, which has been saturated theoretically according to the criteria for entering the research with 10 people. The method of gathering data was semi-structured interviews. What kinds of challanges the Humanities encounter in the Iranian Academic System has been addressed in this project. As the validity of the gathered information was confirmed from the evaluation criteria of Lincoln and Guba (1985) and Denzin (1978) and Patton (1999). Data analysis was performed with inductive method using a seven-step Colaizzi (1978). The results showed 8 of the requirements of entrepreneurship humanities include Knowledge creation in education, redefining identity and modify social illustration, skills in education, institutionalization of high university culture, metadisciplinary creation, recognition of identity disciplines and opportunities, development Dialogue as entrepreneurship, institutionalization of high culture is the entrepreneurship of the humanities as value creation. Also, the humanities in the Iranian academic system are characterized by challenges Content (Passive content, Paradigm differences), Structural (independence of the humanities at politics, institutional support), Agency (educational strategies, bad teacher) and Contextual (Academic culture, Biological and Technical Sciences Blackmail).

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