"“New Game” or “New Playground”; a Pathological Analysis of the Productivity Discourse in Iran's Educational System (Criticism of the Fundamental Reform Document of Education )

Articles in Press

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 PhD in Philosophy of Education, Faculty of Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Professor of Philosophy of Education, Department of Education, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

In educational systems, productivity is subject to innovation and creativity, and it is crucial to achieve this innovation by changing the attitude of those involved in the education system toward thinking. In the past decades, three discourses of innovation have been pursued in Iran, including the discourse of change in the product, the process and the structure, and with the compilation of the Fundamental Reform Document of Education (FRDE), extensive efforts have been made to implement innovative reforms with the goal of enhancing productivity. Meanwhile, no improvement has truly been made in the Iranian educational system, because the accomplishment of creative innovations has been impeded by the attitude toward thinking and the dominance of linear thinking in the educational policies set in our country. These efforts have thus mostly been focused on changing the game yet still playing on the same field, while revolutionary and creative innovation does not simply mean changing the game and playing on the same field; rather, it means to create a new playground, which can be achieved by revising the discourses of the upstream documents compilation.

Keywords

Main Subjects

The Journal of New Thoughts on Education

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 14 October 2024

Files

Share

How to cite

Statistics