نوع مقاله : پژوهشی
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Systems thinking serves as a foundation that, through its unique capabilities, facilitates the understanding of complex issues and provides opportunities for making optimal choices for a better life. It is fitting that learning it begins from childhood in primary school. The objective of this research was to design a model for cultivating systems thinking in primary school students, conducted using the qualitative method of grounded theory. The statistical population consisted of experts in the fields of educational sciences, counseling, and psychology familiar with the primary education domain. From among them, 25 individuals were selected through theoretical sampling for in-depth interviews, and the interviews continued until theoretical saturation was achieved. The validity of the findings was assessed using member checking and pilot interviews. For the analysis of qualitative data, open, axial, and selective coding were employed. The results indicate that 1,390 initial conceptual statements, comprising 23 main categories and 90 subcategories, were identified within the six dimensions of the conceptual model, including: causal conditions (school, family, curriculum), the core phenomenon (cultivating systems thinking), contextual conditions (cognition, holistic view, managerial competencies, adequate resources and facilities, flexibility in the educational system, alignment of social institutions with the school), intervening conditions (social environment, political culture, economic system, cultural conditions), strategies (utilizing a participatory system, fostering life skills, teaching, motivational strategies), and consequences (comprehensive perspective, skill enhancement, academic success, individual development, community development). The integration of categories based on existing relationships forms the conceptual model that reflects the pattern for cultivating systems thinking in primary school students.
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Copyright © Mansoor Dehghan Manshadi, Samane Eslami Mahdiabadi
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