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Hashemi, Seyed Ziea; Taavoni, Shayeste – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
Teachers' work in Iran has undergone two determining changes since 1979: The Islamicisation of the education system and, consequently, Islamic teacher education, with neoliberal policies, has accelerated in recent years. The authors believe Islamicisation has been integrated into neoliberal policies and together these have shaped teachers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Islam, Educational Policy
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Manouchehri, 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
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Mahdi Sajjadi, Seyed – Policy Futures in Education, 2015
Three decades have passed since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and, entering the fourth decade, major changes are apparent in the structure and content of the nation's education system. Because of the victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran and the regime change and formation of an Islamic state, the changes in the educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Criticism, Educational Change, Educational Development
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Shobeiri, Seyed Mohammad; Meiboudi, Hossein; Kamali, Fatemeh Ahmadi – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2014
The present study investigates environmental education (EE) before and after Iran's Islamic Revolution. The research method is case study, and among the case study methods, historical analysis has been used in this research. A wide array of sources were employed, from government performance reports to documents, records, books, and articles…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Educational History, Educational Change, Educational Practices
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Zamani, Bibi Eshrat – Computers & Education, 2010
The main purpose of this paper is to identify factors and conditions that are important for successful implementation of computers in Iranian schools during one decade from 1995 to 2005. The second focus of this paper is to examine how these factors relate to models of implementation in other countries such as developed countries. This paper is…
Descriptors: Social Change, Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Affolter, Friedrich W. – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2007
This article explores the motivational causes for learning and community service of students, faculty, and volunteer supporters of the Baha'i Institute of Higher Education (BIHE) in Iran. BIHE is a grassroots initiative launched by Baha'i academics, who--after having been expelled from public universities as a result of their allegiance to the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Foreign Countries, College Faculty