this essay evaluates the major methodological trends in research at the iranian academic educational journals based on scott’s methodological criticism. therefore, the present study sought to examine a small part of iranian educational research in the context of scott's taxonomy, including nine major fallacies: epistemic, homogeneity, causal, essentialist, value free knowledge, prospective, red...

this article discusses the stylistic criticism of the adonis’s poetry, based on the book modern poetic style by salah fadel. for this purpose, this article focuses on the critic himself and investigates the basic issues that he raised, specifies the concept and the expressions that he conceptualized, and the methodological techniques that he employed. this researcher believes that the critic ha...

Delphi is a powerful technique used to seek answers to appropriate questions. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the Delphi technique as a research method. This paper discusses the scientific merit of the Delphi technique by investigating on 41 studies of Journal of Agricultural Education from 1981 to 2013, and 2 studies of Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology. The...

Most insights of environmental economics are in line with the standard neoclassical economic model of rational behaviour, formulated in terms of maximization of utility in general, or of profits in particular. The standard theory of environmental policy is a case in point. However, the maximization hypothesis and its methodological foundation have been criticized on many grounds related to a la...

islamic feminism has been articulated through recent decades as an alternative to traditional islamic thinking on women’s issues. scholars who are identified as islamic feminists use different methodological approaches like hermeneutics, historical criticism, and woman perspective in their works on various subjects of study. these scholars who have different cultural and philosophical backgroun...