Designing a Family Management Curriculum Model for Students
Keywords:
Curriculum, Family Management, Meta-SynthesisAbstract
The manner in which families are managed today constitutes a substantial component of their identity and contributes to their economic vitality, growth, and development. The education system of every country, in preparing each generation for successful engagement with the future, must appropriately identify and select diverse educational and developmental domains. Therefore, the primary objective of this study was to identify the factors influencing the family management curriculum for students. The present research adopted a qualitative approach and employed the seven-step meta-synthesis method proposed by Sandelowski and Barroso (2007). The study was conducted through a comprehensive review of all sources related to smart governance and its essential associated factors, including 460 articles, books, and dissertations retrieved from reputable national and international scientific databases, published within the Solar Hijri years 1380–1404 and the Gregorian years 2000–2025. Subsequently, based on relevance to the research topic, the initial sources were screened, and 40 sources were selected for coding of the extracted concepts. Overall, based on the findings of the systematic review using a meta-synthesis approach, the model comprised three dimensions (objectives, content, and evaluation), 12 main categories, and 70 subcategories. Each dimension encompassed principal categories as follows: objectives (social, economic, simplicity, skill-based, ethics and commitment, communicative, emotional, and cognitive); content (organization and selection); and evaluation (continuity of assessment and performance measurement). To assess reliability and ensure quality control, Cohen’s kappa coefficient was applied, and the calculated kappa index for the family management curriculum factors indicated an excellent level of agreement.
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