Due to rapid changes in the world, university curriculum documents are being constantly revised. One of the phenomena which has been facilitated as well as occasionally abused in light of advancement of digital tools and technologies is the quantity and quality of research outputs. It is accordingly imperative that, in curriculum planning in general and writing curriculum documents, due attention be paid to clean research and its requirements. This study has aimed to investigate the extent to which the curriculum documents revised by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology have taken research ethics into consideration. In keeping with this, using basic content analysis and thematic analysis, the research has analyzed twelve curriculum documents in the four disciplines of foreign languages of English, French, German, and Russian in undergraduate and graduate program levels and has sought to provide the reader with the amount of coverage of ethical research and its manifestations in the data. The findings indicate that, although the issue of clean research is comparatively covered in the curricula of the disciplines of English and French language, albeit with quite an uneven distribution, it has been excluded from the curricula of the graduate programs from which it is expected that they train researchers. Ultimately, the findings will be discussed with regard to the vital role higher education plays in socializing individuals to societal values such as ethics of research.
Rasti, A. (2026). Critical Evaluation of Revised Curricula in the Fields of Foreign Languages in Light of Research Ethics. Journal of Curriculum Research, 16(1), 230-215. doi: 10.22099/jcr.2026.8775
MLA
Rasti, A. . "Critical Evaluation of Revised Curricula in the Fields of Foreign Languages in Light of Research Ethics", Journal of Curriculum Research, 16, 1, 2026, 230-215. doi: 10.22099/jcr.2026.8775
HARVARD
Rasti, A. (2026). 'Critical Evaluation of Revised Curricula in the Fields of Foreign Languages in Light of Research Ethics', Journal of Curriculum Research, 16(1), pp. 230-215. doi: 10.22099/jcr.2026.8775
CHICAGO
A. Rasti, "Critical Evaluation of Revised Curricula in the Fields of Foreign Languages in Light of Research Ethics," Journal of Curriculum Research, 16 1 (2026): 230-215, doi: 10.22099/jcr.2026.8775
VANCOUVER
Rasti, A. Critical Evaluation of Revised Curricula in the Fields of Foreign Languages in Light of Research Ethics. Journal of Curriculum Research, 2026; 16(1): 230-215. doi: 10.22099/jcr.2026.8775
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