A study of Yazd educational system in the Qajar period

Subject Areas : Journal of History (Tarikh)

ahmad babayi ¹ , Soheila Torabi Farsani ² , Mohammad Hasan Mirhosaini ³

1 - Department of History - Faculty of Literature and Humanities - Islamic Azad University - Najafabad Branch - Iran
2 - Department of History - Faculty of Literature and Humanities - Islamic Azad University - Najafabad Branch - Iran
3 - Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran

Received: 2020-03-31 Accepted : 2020-12-08 Published : 2020-11-21

Keywords: Yazd, Qajar, Traditional education, Modern education,

Abstract :

Abstract:The purpose of this article is to study and analyze the developments and backgrounds of the formation of the new educational system and schools in the Qajar period. By choosing the historical period of "Qajar" as the source and beginning of the changes in the new educational system in Yazd, the present study has tried to analyze and explain the "contexts, content and process of educational developments in Yazd" with a descriptive and analytical approach. According to studies, teaching in a new style began in the middle of the reign of Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar with the initiative of religious missionaries in Yazd. Subsequently, religious minorities such as Zoroastrians, Jews, merchants, and dignitaries established new-style schools and established the growth and dynamism of the city's education system. However, this process faced many obstacles and obstacles. However, the traditional methods of education, namely schools of religious sciences and schools in Yazd, continued for decades after the constitution. In the process of changes in the educational system and the formation of new education in Yazd, factors such as global developments and domestic developments in the country, the characteristics of Yazd multicultural society due to religious minorities, Qajar tendency towards education and new educational styles (from the middle of Qajar), The establishment of new schools such as Dar al-Fonun, etc., local newspapers, Zoroastrian merchants, the Constitutional Revolution and the establishment of schools by minorities and religious missionaries, etc. have been effective.