Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

Interdisciplinary Education of Public Administration in Iran: Curriculum Planning Requirements

Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

Saied Mojtaba Emami 1
Mohammad Mahdi Zolfagharzade 2
Hosein Khassaf mofrad 3

1 Faculty of Islamic Knowledge & Management, University of Imam Sadiq, Tehran, Iran.

2 Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies, University of Tehran, Iran.

3 University of Shahid Beheshti, Tehran, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.7508/isih.2012.16.005
Abstract
By going through different definitions of public administration, we can generally consider it as: the implementing of managerial, political, and legal theories to fulfill legislative, executive, and judicial mandates for the provision of governmental regulatory and service functions. By reviewing these definitions of public administration, this article states that interdisciplinarity is an inevitable concept of public administration's education and research in each government. Scanning and analysing pioneer courses of public administration in the world, shows that scholars of this area constantly were using different ways to achieve an interdisciplinary education in this field. For achieving it's real role of governing the Islamic state, the field of public administration in Iran should pay more attention and effort to interdisciplinary education. In this regard, by looking into current situation and style of curriculum planning of this field in Iran, the requirements of interdisciplinary curriculum planning are proposed in 7 different themes as: 1) team of curriculum planning, 2) goals of curriculum planning, 3) content and combination of curriculum, 4) integration approaches, 5) learning-teaching requirements, 6) evaluation methods of academic achievement and 7) curriculum evaluating methods. Also by considering recent innovative experience of Imam Sadiq university in Iran in this area, some implications are drawn to improve this important field in the country.

Keywords

Public administration
interdisciplinary education
curriculum planning
integration approaches
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Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities
Volume 4, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4
Autumn 2012
Pages 107-144

  • Receive Date 14 July 2012

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