Ali Reza Moradi
Abstract
The main purpose of this study is to explainhistorical aspects of social demand for education and to analyze itsinfluential factors in Iranian social life. The main question was about theapproaches of Iranian crowd toward the education. The research approach isqualitative method and relevant historical ...
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The main purpose of this study is to explainhistorical aspects of social demand for education and to analyze itsinfluential factors in Iranian social life. The main question was about theapproaches of Iranian crowd toward the education. The research approach isqualitative method and relevant historical facts collected by documentaryresearch method. Findings revealed that we cannot use the modern term"social demand for education" to describe the nature and historicaldevelopments of educational needs of people in Iran. In Fact, demand foreducation was not a public demand for Iranian crowd. Social history ofeducation has neglected in Iran and Review of educational historiography ofIran explicated that there is no trace of crowd in cultural history of Iran.The crowd, actually, have not been able to voice their educational needs andthis could be analyzed by the social factors such as gender, class and ethnic inequalities.The current study showed that social, political and economic structure of Irandid not facilitate social demand for education. Religious educational demands,of course, formed in some historical times such as Safavid period due to thespecific political-cultural structure. Social demand for education graduallyformed in the modern history of Iran and its formation is concerned to thedevelopments of socio-economic infrastructures.
