Analysis of the ideological discourse of Iranian education after the Islamic Revolution A Case Study of the Discourse of the principled Government (2005-2013)

Subject Areas : Social Science Quarterly

seyyed behrouz Mousavi behbid ¹ , Ahmad Ali Hesabi ² , Nabi allah Ider ³

1 - Phd student, Department of Political Sociology, Shoushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar, Iran.
2 - Sociology, Social Science, Islamic Azad University, Shushtar, Iran
3 - Department of Political Sociology, Shoushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar, Iran.

Received: 2020-11-12 Accepted : 2021-12-13 Published : 2021-11-22

Keywords: Discourse, Ideology, Revolution, education,

Abstract :

Aim of this research; Discourse Analysis - The ideology of the principled government in the Iranian education system and also the study of the approach of this government in order to represent its discourse through the education system. The present study is a qualitative study that has described, interpreted and explained the nature and elements of the educational discourse in this historical period using the method of Fairclough critical discourse analysis method and Laclau and Mouffe theory.Based on the results of this study, it can be acknowledged that; The principled government, during its executive management, has sought to control, monitor, and intervene in the education system. In many cases, by influencing the process of passing laws, as well as producing content and modifying textbook texts, it has sought to transform the existing cultural-educational discourse and represent the dominant discourse syndrome through the education system.The research findings show that the education of the principled state has distanced itself from the symptoms of the Islamic Social Democrats in terms of discourse and has approached the discourse elements of Islamic ideological traditionalism. Therefore, it emphasizes on God-centeredness, expansion of justice, independence and denial of dependence, protection of the deprived, self-sacrifice, localism, compassion, anti-arrogance, duty-orientation, etc. in its documents.The above discourse elements recreate religious and revolutionary subjects in the framework of the dominant discourse and in line with the complete negation of Western cultural values by challenging the dominant order in the international system. The findings also show that the subject of the principled state is a political subject that conforms to the elements and discourse minutes of the traditional ideological system.