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Explaining the Dimensions and Components of Academic Governance
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Fahimeh Rabbani Khah    1, Ali Khorsandi Taskoh2 , Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi3 , Saeed Ghiasi Nodoohan4 , Mehdi Elyasi5 |
1- PhD student in Higher Education Management, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran , f_rabbani@yahoo.com
2- Associate Professor, Department of Educational Planning and Management, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
3- Professor, Department of Physics, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
4- Associate Professor, Department of Management and Educational Planning, Faculty Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
5- Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran |
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Objective: Today, universities have a special place in societies and as one of the main players in the pyramid of power, they play a key role in the development of societies. The centrality of the university in today's society has been achieved due to the direct role of the university in the production of new knowledge. Because the production of knowledge has replaced capital assets and became the main element of economic growth. According to recent studies, university governance has been considered as an important and fundamental issue and a key element in the process of higher education reforms around the world. Understanding the components and indicators of academic governance requires extensive research so that its results can be used for policy making in Iran's higher education. This research has been done with the aim of reviewing the studies done to identify the dimensions and components of academic governance in higher education.
Materials and methods: This research has been conducted with a qualitative approach using a meta-synthesis method. The statistical population of this research includes reliable scientific sources published in the period from 2000 to 2023, which have been collected from the domestic and international scientific databases of Noormags, Magiran, SID, Scopus, Science Direct, Google scholar, Taylor & Francis and DOAJ. Next, sampling from the research community was done with a targeted search strategy and 45 of the 93 articles were selected, coded and analyzed by comparing the title, abstract, method and findings of the research sources according to the seven-step method of Sandelowski and Barroso (2007).
Results: Academic governance components were classified into 77 codes, 16 components and 9 dimensions. The main dimensions include: independence-orientedness, framework-orientedness, community-orientedness, inclusion-orientedness, guidance-orientedness, futurism, culturalism, quality-orientedness and knowledge-orientedness.
Conclusion: Based on the findings of this research, it is possible to reach a conceptual summary about the components of academic governance in Iranian Higher Education, which higher education policy makers can use in formulating and implementing higher education policies. The presented model can be used as a basis for evaluating and improving academic governance practices in Iranian universities and also as a road map for governance development.
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| Keywords: governance of higher education, academic governance, university, meta-synthesis study |
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Received: 2023/09/11 | Accepted: 2024/06/24
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Rabbani Khah F, Khorsandi Taskoh A, Tehranchi M M, Ghiasi Nodoohan S, Elyasi M. Explaining the Dimensions and Components of Academic Governance. ihej 2024; 15 (3) :91-113 URL: http://ihej.ir/article-1-1989-en.html
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