PRESENTING A PATTERN FOR FACULTY MEMBERS’ COMPETENCY IN THE INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY

Faculty members as one of the crucial human capitals each university, can play an important role for this purpose. And when, a faculty can play a more effective role in the international engagements that he has the necessary competencies in this filed. Thus, the purpose of present research was the presenting a pattern for faculty members’ competency in the international engagements. To achieve the purpose, the qualitative approach through phenomenological method was used. The statistical populations were included experts in field of higher education in Iran, which selected 21 people as participants in the research by purposive sampling. The research instrument was semi–structured interview and also, data analyses method was qualitative inductive content analysis. Validity was confirmed through techniques such as member checking, and peer checking. Findings showed that conceptual pattern of faculty members’ competency in the international engagements included six competencies; scientific, professional, communicational, cross-cultural, metacognitive and intellectual.