Dr. Amir Asgari, assistant professor of the Faculty of Family Sciences

The tangible objectives of establishing the Faculty of Family Sciences

16 01 2024 08:55

کد خبر : 61319

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According to many academics, the university, despite being primarily an educational and research institution, is not solely focused on employability and competitiveness in the new generations, nor does it pay enough attention to sustainability.

According to many academics, the university, despite being primarily an educational and research institution, is not solely focused on employability and competitiveness in the new generations, nor does it pay enough attention to sustainability. Therefore, academics view the university, above all, as an ecosystem builder, encompassing a range of actors and infrastructures that seek to develop the existing ecosystem. In other words, in the new generations of the university system, the university is also perceived as an agent of progress.

In today's world, the issue of the family is considered a multidimensional and complex problem with specific concerns and vulnerabilities, which necessitates a specialized approach from various perspectives to establish a healthy and flourishing social foundation. Thus, the formation of an academic institution with a multidimensional and interdisciplinary approach, focused on the main elements of university and non-university ecosystem development with effective interventions in society to improve the role of the family in the country's social system, has been repeatedly discussed and examined by academic stakeholders and concerned individuals aiming to create a healthy society. In this regard, the major objectives of forming the faculty are defined as follows:

  1. Centralization and establishment of a scientific, research, specialized, and executive base to improve the role of the family in the social system under the perspective of the family as a social foundation.
  2. Ecosystem formation and multidimensional development of family-related activities, women, and population.
  3. Development of interdisciplinary studies to focus on family health from social, physical, mental, and intellectual health perspectives.
  4. Development and enhancement of social welfare indices based on and centered on the family.
  5. Strengthening family-centered social participation and women in areas such as innovation, entrepreneurship, family-oriented economy, and family-based entrepreneurship.
  6. Designing mechanisms and programs for active and dynamic participation in family-related issues and challenges.
  7. Designing operational mechanisms to nurture and enhance the competencies of diligent researchers in the field of family.
  8. Increasing the application of innovative knowledge with an emphasis on interdisciplinary areas and focusing on modern sciences and technologies in all processes and activities.
  9. Designing mechanisms to actively respond to the needs of society and commit to solving major national problems in the field of family issues towards fulfilling social responsibilities.
  10. Improving employment conditions and empowering family and women activists in academic and executive sectors.
  11. Optimizing long-term and practical policymaking and planning in the country in the areas of family, women, health, population, and gender.
  12. Long-term planning to create coherence in the concepts of family, women, gender, and population in the university and society, recognizing the contribution of women, family, and gender studies to national development.
  13. Maintaining, ensuring, and enhancing the health of Iranian families in physical, psychological, and social dimensions.
  14. Training and providing specialized human resources for the foundation of health policies to improve family health, focusing on women, and subsequently family health, and laying the groundwork for population policy-making to increase population with the removal of existing obstacles, including women's health issues in both social and physical dimensions.
  15. Training specialized human resources for education, research, and planning in family and women's affairs.

Therefore, the establishment and launch of a specialized family faculty with an emphasis on providing specialized human resources in this field, in order to synergize the two realms of science and policy regarding family strengthening, increasing social, economic, and political participation of women, focusing on the field of family, its population, and health, generating indigenous knowledge, reviewing and rethinking the curriculum of women's studies to reduce challenges in this area, creating a scientific-specialized pole in the field of family studies, and producing indigenous knowledge to meet the needs of today's society in the field of family based on modern approaches to knowledge production are essential.