The challenge of teaching humanities in Iranian universities: a qualitative study

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to identify and identify the challenges and problems that exist in the education process of humanities in Iranian universities. This epistemological and methodological research has a qualitative approach. Qualitative in-depth interviews and KII techniques (interviews with key informed individuals) have been used to collect data with prominent and competent professors in the fifteen chosen disciplines of the humanities field. The results of this research show that the challenges of education in humanities in Iran include: environmental and indigenous challenges, linguistic, political, ideological, social challenges, institutional and cultural challenges. Other findings of the research are the weakness of the theoretical foundation of university education and humanities. Major problems are: lack of a system for accurate evaluation of teachers' teaching, and lack of adequate and adequate attention to humanities at the policy level, lack of attention to ecological conditions, the complete affiliation of human sciences to institutions The politician, as well as superficiality, is taught and, finally, the lack of attention to individual differences.

Keywords

• humanities
• higher education
• educational process