TY - JOUR ID - 102586 TI - Identifying and Presenting the Model of Barriers and Challenges of International Interactions of Faculty Members of Tabriz University JO - Journal of Management and Planning In Educational System JA - MPES LA - en SN - 2423-5261 AU - Tarassoli, Esmaeil AU - Ghasemzadeh Alishahi, Abolfazl AU - Yarmohammadzade, Peyman AD - M.A in Management and Planning in Higher Education, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran AD - Associate Professor of Educational Management, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran Y1 - 2022 PY - 2022 VL - 15 IS - 2 SP - 211 EP - 228 KW - identification KW - Barriers and Challenges KW - International Interactions KW - faculty members DO - 10.48308/mpes.2022.102586 N2 - Objectives: One of the ways of scientific dynamism in any country and scientific development of higher education and faculty members of any university in the world is through the international interactions of faculty members. The purpose of this study is to identify the barriers and challenges of international interactions of faculty members of Tabriz University to provide a model for these barriers and challenges.Materials and Methods: This research was done by using a qualitative approach through conventional content analysis method using MAXQDA 2018 software. Participants in this study were 15 faculty members of Tabriz University selected by systematic sampling method using the snowball technique. After semi-structured interviews with the participants, these interviews continued until the data saturation was gained; then, the researcher did the open coding, and after that, the axial coding was done in two steps until the main categories were identified. The validity of these interviews was assessed by using two strategies of analysis and review by participants and research colleagues.Discussion and Conclusions: The analysis results of the study showed that the identified barriers and challenges of international interactions have four main dimensions including individual barriers and challenges, organizational barriers and challenges, national barriers and challenges, and transnational barriers and challenges. Results showed that the individual barriers and challenges included three components ( low motivation of faculty members to have international interactions, insufficient mastery of faculty members in an international language, and weakness of scientific-research abilities and skills of faculty members), the organizational barriers consisted of four components (inadequate support of university structure from international interactions of faculty members, insufficient support of university culture from international interactions of faculty members, insufficient financial support of university from international interactions of faculty members, weakness of expert human resources in different organizational sections), the national barriers and challenges included three elements (cultural, social, economic, and scientific components), and the transnational barriers and challenges had two elements (political obstacles and international sanctions). The proposed model can be used as a basis for identifying, acting, and evaluating to remove barriers and challenges to international interactions of faculty members for the relevant authorities to increase those interactions.  UR - https://mpes.sbu.ac.ir/article_102586.html L1 - https://mpes.sbu.ac.ir/article_102586_965b29b464095487deae58252eb8d1d8.pdf ER -