Formation of the Professional Identity Model of Faculty Members (Case study: faculty members of Islamic Azad University of Fars province)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• moein foroutan ¹
• hamideh reshadatjoo ²
• siamak samani ³

¹ Islamic Azad Universitu Faculty member

² Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics and Management, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran

³ Associate Professor, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht Branch, Marvdasht, Iran

Abstract

The present research is a component of quantitative and qualitative research. The research participants were faculty members of universities in the field of education and higher education. Twelve faculty members of Shiraz, Tarbiat Modarres, Razi, Yazd and Tehran sciences and research branch universities were selected by means of targeted sampling of key experts and following theoretical saturation technique. Data were collected using two tools: "Document Examination" and "Semi-structured interview". The data analysis method was used to data analysis. Finally, the main finding of the study was the design of a professional identity model of faculty members with 5 general themes: 1) background 2) personal 3) social culture 4) professional and 5) political-economic. Based on the selected model of the content network, a faculty member's professional identity questionnaire was developed and 30 faculty members were assigned to determine the validity and reliability. The validity of the questionnaire was analyzed by the Item analysis and its reliability with Cronbach's alpha. In a quantitative part of the study, a questionnaire was distributed to 331 faculty members of the Islamic Azad University of Fars province selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. The results of repeated measures of variance analysis indicated that faculty members, professional, personal, cultural, social, political and economic factors had the highest and the least impact on the growth of their professional identity, respectively. The results of multivariate analysis of variance also showed that there is no significant difference between the professional identity of faculty members with different scientific degrees.

Keywords

• "professional identity"
• "higher education"
• "faculty member"
• "islamic azad university"

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