Aims and Scope:
Bi-quarterly Journal of Higher Education Curriculum Studies was established in order to address the issues and challenges of the curriculum in the higher education environment and in line with specialized thinking and practice in the curriculum and avoiding routine answers to questions from different curriculum dimensions and reaching the organized efforts in the field of higher education. This journal was developed with the help of a group of curriculum and higher education specialists, with the support of the Iranian Curriculum Studies Association, with the purpose of publishing the works and ideas of experts and researchers in the field and meanwhile encouraging more questions and answers in this emerging domain.
Main Subjects:
The publication’s priorities have been introduced under four general titles and twenty-six sub-titles. The general title include:
- Priorities related to higher education curriculum ideas
- Priorities related to the fields and implementation platforms of higher education curriculum models
- Priorities related to the link between higher education curriculum and macro social policies
- Priorities related to the international studies in the field of higher education
Sub-titles:
Priorities related to higher education curriculum theories
- New theories in the field of higher education curriculum studies
- Novel patterns of higher education curriculum design
- Emerging models in the field of curriculum implementation in higher education
- Fresh ideas for reforming higher education curricula
The priority related to the fields and implementation platforms of higher education curriculum models
- Implementation models of the existing curricula for the higher education system
- Platforms and indicators affecting on the implementation of higher education curricula
- Psychological, scientific, philosophical, social foundations of higher education curriculum
- New research approaches in the context of higher education curriculum studies
- Fields and platforms of decentralization in the field of university curricula
- Measuring and evaluating, validating and guaranteeing the quality of higher education curricula
- New platforms for implementing higher education curricula (virtual platforms, educational multimedia and integrated platforms)
The priority related to the link between higher education curriculum and macro social policies
- University curriculum and economics
- University curriculum and politics
- University curriculum and environment
- University curriculum and multicultural society
- University curriculum and religious education
- University curriculum and art education
- University curriculum and moral education
- University curriculum and media education
- University curriculum and health literacy
- University curriculum and social developments
- University curriculum and sociocultural challenges
Preference for international studies in the field of higher education
- Internationalization of curricula as well as curriculum based on professional competence
- Comparative studies of higher education curricula in the countries of the world
- Consolidated studies of research findings in the field of international curriculum studies
