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Direct linkVaraki, Bakhtiar Shabani; Qamsari, Alireza Sadeqzadeh; Sefidkhosh, Meisam; Sajjadi, Seyed Mahdi; Chaboki, Reza Mohammadi; Kalatehjafarabadi, Tahereh Javidi; Saffarheidari, Hojjat; Mohammadamini, Meisam; Karimzadeh, Omid; Barkhordari, Ramazan; Zarghami-Hamrah, Saeid; Peters, Michael A.; Tesar, Marek – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
This collective article discusses the philosophy of modern higher education in Iran, which in this case, optimistically, its history dates back to the founding of "Dar al-fonun" (1851)--if we consider "Dar al-fonun" as a university. Otherwise, its origin can be traced back to the University of Tehran (established in 1934).…
Descriptors: Educational History, Higher Education, Criticism, Foreign Countries
Download full textMadyarov, Irshat; Taef, Aida – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2012
This study explores six cases of non-native English speaking students engaged in a distance English-medium course on critical thinking at a university in Iran. Framed within activity theory, the study investigated students' course-related activity systems with a particular focus on contradictions that underlie any human activity. The construct of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Second Language Learning
Rezai-Rashti, Goli M.; Moghadam, Valentine M. – International Review of Education, 2011
In contemporary Iran, women with higher education face both gender discrimination and an unfavourable economic system, one that is not conducive to employment-generation for women. This paper provides an analysis of women's access to higher education in Iran, which has varied over the last 30 years, and their continuously limited participation in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Females, Labor Market, Foreign Countries
