Document Type : Research/Original/Regular

Authors

• sedigheh heidari majd ¹
• khadige barzegar ²

¹ Graduated from the University of Religions and denomination, women and family faculty

² Assistant Professor of Qom University of Religions and denomination, Faculty of Women and Family

Abstract

The field of women's studies in Iran is a development from the West in line with the global development and the impact of feminist currents on the academic environment. Considering the two decades of presence of women's studies in the scientific environment of Iran, we expect to see the role of the graduates in the scientific and social dimensions related to women. This paper aims to take a pathological look at the capabilities of the women's studies in training the graduates as activists in the field of women's studies. The present research, using a qualitative method and using interview tools with women's studies students and content analysis technique, examines the application of concepts and theories in the lived experience of students at different levels of knowledge, Insight and Action. The research will be carried out through qualititative method, grounded theory, using in-depth interviews as data collection technique and coding text and analysis of the more comprehensive answers. Final categories are 15 including students’ empowerment in creative thinking, a lack of backgroung knowledge on sociology, inadequacy of the approved course units in covering objective issues, necessity of updating the units plays main role in efficiency and the realization of goals, the conflict between the objectivity and the subjectivity in the topics and teachings of women's studies, avoiding active and conscious activism and the role of students and professors in the application of the concepts of in lived experience.

Keywords

• women's studies
• lived experience
• course contents
• interdisciplinary

Main Subjects

• Woman and family