Designing a Model for Reducing Curriculum Waste in Technical and Vocational Education

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The undesirable curriculum provides a field for the development of low-qualified individuals. This result can be explained in the context of the concept of curriculum waste. In other words, the waste of the curriculum can be considered as the result of an unsatisfactory implementation of one of the design, implementation, and evaluation phases of the curriculum, which led to the loss of investment capital. The purpose of this study was to Presentation of a Pattern for Reducing Curriculum Waste in technical and vocational training. To this end, the required data were collected based on the qualitative research approach and descriptive phenomenological method. The research field was comprised of all experts and experts in the field of technical and vocational education and curriculum specialists who were selected by targeted sampling method. The research tool was a semi-structured interview and for analysis of data, thematic network analysis was used. The data collection in the twenty-first interview resulted in a theoretical saturation of the data, and during this phase the interviews were stopped. Data analysis was carried out according to A trade and Sterling (2001). The results resulted in identifying 147 basic themes, 91 organizing themes and 6 inclusive themes including non-specific nature, defective measurement and contraction in the method, return costs, inefficient manpower and inadequate learning environment.

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Volume 8, Issue 2
August 2017
Pages 145-165
  • Receive Date: 16 August 2016
  • Revise Date: 02 October 2018
  • Accept Date: 10 August 2017
  • First Publish Date: 23 August 2017
  • Publish Date: 23 August 2017