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Direct linkManouchehri, Bahar; Burns, Edgar A. – Education and Urban Society, 2023
This article discusses how a bottom-up approach to learning can be positioned within a top-down educational structure. For the first time, Iran's educational system has witnessed a shift from a one-dimensional teacher-centered approach to the triangular student-facilitator-parent approach. While the majority of children's participative activities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Rights, Participative Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Burns, Edgar A.; Manouchehri, Bahar – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2020
This study of the rise and fall of nature schools across Iran in 2014-2019 shows the environmental and educational context of modernization during and before the Iranian Islamic Republic commenced in 1979. The account provides the historical and cultural context for understanding the nature school movement. Ecologist Hossein Vahabzadeh's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Social Change, Educational History
Pittsburgh Univ., PA. Council of Graduate Students in Education. – 1981
The Council for Graduate Students in Education's Seventh Annual Colloquium was held on March 28, 1981, on the theme "Education Across Cultures: Domestic and International Perspectives." Papers presented include: "Symbolic Strategies in the Organization of Ethnic Study Programs" (Julian E. Abuso); "The Prospective…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Deafness, Developing Nations
Download full textUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Principal Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. – 1995
One of a series of studies on the development of technical and vocational education in the member states of UNESCO, this report profiles the educational system in Iran. The six parts of the document provide information about the following: the country; the educational system; fundamental change in the new system of secondary school education,…
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Philosophy
Fereshteh, M. Hussein – 1992
This paper examines the strong relationship between American universities and Iranian institutions of higher education from 1960 to 1980 and beyond. A review of comparative literature indicates that these relationships have had a lasting impact on Iranian education. The paper begins with a brief history of education in Persia beginning around 700…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cultural Influences, Cultural Interrelationships, Developing Nations
Sassani, Abul H. K. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1962
This bulletin provides background information on Iran--the country, including economic factors; the people, and the government. The report further describes educational developments, including: (1) Early European influence; (2) Cooperative U.S. programs; (3) Administration and organization of education, including the Ministry of Education; (4) The…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Vocational Education, Preschool Education, Foreign Countries
