Explaining the Phenomenon of Scientific Formalism in Iran’s Academic System: Factors and Solutions

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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Administration and Planning, Alzahra, Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Policy Evaluation STI Monitoring, National Research Institute for Science Policy, Tehran, Iran.

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Malayer University, Malayer, Iran.

10.22034/jstp.2021.14.2.1306

Abstract

When there are no observations of any social and economic effects of academic research on the welfare of society, this shows us just production of the articles regardless the problem-oriented and its applicability can be a strong evidence for existence of the problem in the academic context of Iran. Thus, this problem has created a phenomenon entitled "scientific formalism". Formalism is a phenomenon that has manifested itself in social behaviors and other areas of people's lives. Therefore, the academic system and subsequently the scientific fields have been affected by this issue, and if this issue is not resolved, it will have irreparable consequences on the body of the Iran academic system and, consequently, on society. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to identify the factors affecting emergence of the phenomenon of scientific formalism in the Iran academic system and solutions to solve it. So, the researchers a qualitative approach and phenomenology method was used. The research sample included 13 of the academic experts of Iran, who were interviewed through criterion sampling and based on inductive thematic saturation in the interviews. For analyzing the data, thematic analysis was used. To ensure validity of research were used member checking, peer checking, and triangulation. The findings of analysis of data research showed that the reasons for the emergence of the phenomenon of scientific formalism in Iran can include, economic, social, cultural, political and institutional reasons and solutions of this phenomenon can be in three solutions, economic, cultural and institutional.
    

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