Delineating the philosophical fundamentals of Iranian-Islamic Identity and its pathology among Farhangian University teacher-students

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Alzahra University,Tehran,Iran.

2 Department of Educational Sciences,Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran.

3 Department of Educational Sciences,Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology,Modares Tarbiyat University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

A nation's identity is one of the factors in the formation of a society.In the current globalization era, enhancing the Iranian-Islamic identity is among the strategies to confront the cultural invasion against the Islamic Iran.A teacher plays a key role in the formation process of this identity among the youth. Obviously,teachers themselves should deserve and have the privilege of the mentioned identity to meet the objectives. The aim of stady is After delineating the philosophical fundamentals of this kind of identity,the research aims to study and pathologize the identity components among Farhangian University teacher_students and, accordingly, present strategies to enhance the relevant components. The research design is of a mixed type with the qualitative approach focusing on the delineation of the identity philosophical fundamentals and the quantitative approach surveying the pathology of the identity components among the teacher-students.The instrument is a researcher-developed questionnaire, the validity of which was verified by the experts and CVR and the reliability of which was 0.91 through Cronbach alpha.The statistical population of male and female teacher-students in Tehran comprised 2833, the sample of which (i.e.348 participants)was chosen through stratification to respond the questionnaire.One-sample t-test was employed to analyze the data. The findings revealed that teacher-students achieved %85 of the components of the three philosophical fundamentals: anthropology, epistemology and value-recognition. However,the results of pathology showed that there exist pitfalls in seven components: belonging to Iran, national heritage, national dress, self-sufficiency and moral ethics.The paper ends with some suggestions regarding the relevant strategies to reinforce the identity.

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