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Purpose: The present study was conducted aimed to presenting model of empowerment elementary period managers based on components of futurology. Methodology: This study was applied in terms of purpose and combined (qualitative and quantitative) in terms of implementation method. The research population in the qualitative section was the specialists and experts of Tehran city and in the quantitative section were the primary school managers of Tehran city in the academic years of 2019-20. The research sample in the qualitative section was 12 people who were selected according to the principle of theoretical saturation by purposive and snowball sampling methods and in the quantitative section was 270 people who were selected according to the Krejcie and Morgan table by multi-stage cluster sampling method. Data were collected by methods of take noting, semi-structured interviews and researcher-made questionnaire whose face and structure validity of questionnaire were confirmed and its reliability was obtained by Cronbach's alpha method 0.88. Qualitative data were analyzed by open, axial and selective coding methods and quantitative data were analyzed by structural equation modeling in SPSS-25 and LISREL-8.8 software. Findings: The findings of the qualitative section showed that the model of empowerment elementary period managers based on components of futurology had 6 main categories, 20 sub-categories and 85 indicators. The main categories and sub-categories were included transformation management (sufficient cognition of environment, responsibility and organizational health), empowerment (strengthening teachers' careers, applying participatory management and improving relationship between managers and teachers), sense of competence (having the enough motivation, support for managers, flexibility and creative thinking), organizational structure (organizational changes, lack of resources and inadequate distribution and lack of foresight), standardization (applying knowledge management, use of feedback system and modeling) and growth and improvement (foresight, self-efficacy, risk-taking and delegation of authority).The findings of the quantitative section showed that all six main categories had a significant effect on the model of empowerment elementary period managers based on components of futurology and the model had appropriate fitness indicators. Conclusion: Based on the results, the model of empowerment elementary period managers based on components of futurology can have practical implications for education specialists and planners and can be used to improve the structure of education.

Purpose : The purpose of this study was to identify the factors affecting educational policy-making based on the third millennium characteristics. Methodology : This study was applied in terms of purpose and qualitative in terms of implementation of the data foundation type. The research population was the documents in 2009 to 20019 and educational policy-making experts in 2019, among which 15 were chosen according to the original saturation principle with purposive sampling method. The research tool was a semi-structured interview, whose validity was confirmed by experts and evaluated with proper triangulation method and its reliability was obtained by an internal agreement method of 0.83. For data analysis, content analysis method was used in MAXQDA12 software. Finding : The findings showed that the factors affecting educational policy-making had 9 dimensions, 39 components and 209 indicators, including educational stakeholders, psychological factors, economic factors, technological factors, legal factors, social factors, cultural factors, belief and ideal factors, and political factors. Also, the third millennium education has 6 dimensions, 33 components and 74 indicators, including the characteristics of philosophy and training goals, characteristics of curriculum, educational system characteristics, environmental characteristics and educational space, characteristics of teachers and characteristics of principals and policymakers. In general, for factors affecting educational policy-making based on the third millennium was identified with 15 dimensions, 72 components and 283 indicators. Conclusion : Considering the factors affecting educational policy-making based on the third millennium characteristics, the dimensions and components identified in the present era can be promoted.