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Zakeri M, Sabahizade M. (2021). Identifying Challenges in the Field of Performance and Providing Strategies for Strengthening Local Learning Centers of the Literacy Movement: A Case Study of Hormozgan Province. IEEPJ. 3(2), 148-164. doi:10.52547/ieepj.3.2.148
URL: http://ieepj.hormozgan.ac.ir/article-1-222-en.html
1- Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran , mokhtarzakeri365@gmail.com
2- Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran
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In this study, we sought to identify challenges in the field of performance and provide solutions to strengthen the local learning centers of the literacy movement in Hormozgan province. For this purpose, the qualitative research method of inductive analysis with data coding system was used. The research population consisted of experts, educators and literacy students of the literacy movement of Hormozgan province, (1320 people) and a sample of twenty-five people who were selected using purposive sampling method. Data collection tool was in-depth interview and data analysis methods was inductive analysis. Findings indicated that the functional challenges of local learning centers in Hormozgan province fall into three categories: organizational harms including communication, quality of work life and organizational information technology; motivational harms including human characteristics, lack of empowerment and lack of staff training and environmental harms including political, economic, social, environmental, information technology and outside the organization factors. Strengthening the cognitive and skill level of the audience and stakeholders of the project, improving the economic level of the project audience, improving the time period for educating new learners and improving the level of social support for literacy were the four key categories opportunities for advancing local learning centers. The strengthening the cognitive and skill level of the audience and project stakeholders had the highest frequency among them. The upgrading the use of technology, upgrading the executive infrastructure and upgrading the level of supervision are ways to strengthen the level of local learning centers. The strengthening the level of participation of individuals and institutions related to the project, improving the level of motivation of individuals and related institutions and improving the quantity and quality of educational fields had the highest frequency among them.
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Type of Study: case report | Subject: Educational Psychology
Received: 2020/09/16 | Accepted: 2021/02/22 | Published: 2021/06/1

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