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Socialization of Schoolchildren in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Golnar Mehran
Golnar Mehran*
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Al‐Zahra University, Tehran
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Since its establishment in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has attempted to bring about a cultural revolution, aimed at replacing the old value system with new norms, building an ideal society based on Islamic criteria, and creating a New Islamic Person. In fact, one of the most important slogans of the postrevolutionary period has been: “Our revolution is a revolution in values.” Recognising the importance of the school in the process of character formation, the Iranian government has assigned the task of bringing about a revolution in values to the educational system.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Islamic Republic's efforts to create a new generation of committed and doctrinaire Muslims through the study of socialization in schools. Socialization in this context is defined as “the process by which people learn to adopt the norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors accepted and practiced by the ongoing system.”

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Iranian Studies , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , 1989 , pp. 35 - 50
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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 1989

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