Abstract

Background and Aim: Today, teaching styles and the interaction of teachers in the field of teaching-learning has become very important. Therefore, it is important to study the influential factors in the field of teaching and their chosen approaches to education. In fact, the kind of curriculum ideology and educational philosophy can be considered as a critical and influential element in the field of education and teaching. Therefore, the present study aims to investigate the relationship between curriculum ideology and educational philosophy with the teaching methods of medical science professors (one of the military medical universities of Tehran). Methods: This is a descriptive-correlational study. The population of this study was a faculty members of one of the military medical sciences universities in Tehran who were selected by convenience sampling method. The data collection tools consisted of curriculum ideology questionnaire, educational philosophy and teaching approaches that the validity and reliability of them had been confirmed. Pearson correlation was also used to analyze the information in SPSS 16 software. Results: The findings of the study indicated a significant relationship between the social efficiency ideology (r=0.23, p<0.05) and learner-centered ideology (r=0.25, p<0.05) with the existentialism philosophy of education, social efficiency ideology with teacher teaching approach Axis (r=0.26, P<0.05), as well as learner-centered ideology with a student-centered approach (r=0.26, P<0.05). Other results of the study showed that there was a significant relationship between teacher-centered teaching with progressivism (r=0.23, P<0.05), perennialism (r=0.25, P<0.05), fundamentalism (r=0.30, P<0.01) and existentialism (r=0.27, p<0.05), as well as the relationship between student-centered teaching approach and perennialism educational philosophy (r=0.26, p<0.05). Conclusion: Since the findings point to the significant relationship between the dimensions of the curriculum ideology and the educational philosophies with the teaching methods of the faculty, the studied universities and also similar universities can provide education and programs to raise the level of the quality and familiarity of the faculty with the orientations of the curriculum and the philosophies governing the field.