Developing an Analytical Model for Effective Education in Iran: A Bourdieu-Inspired Genetic Structuralism Approach

Document Type : پژوهشی

Authors

• fardin mohammadi ¹
• Mohsen Noghani Dokht bahmani ²

¹ Assistant Professor of Social Science, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran,

² Department of Social Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Mashhad. Iran.

10.22067/fedu.2025.89696.1365

Abstract

This research aims to design an analytical model of an efficient Education Field in Iran based on Bourdieu’s Genetic Structuralism approach. To achieve this, theories of education and development were examined and systematically reviewed. Based on the insights gathered, the Education Field model was developed. According to this model, the education field, as a "hyper-field," interacts with and coordinates other fields while maintaining relative autonomy, particularly from the field of power. Within the field itself, a "distinct history" influences the formation of the field’s logic, its practices, and the capital of its agents. The primary goal of the Education Field is the enhancement of embodied cultural capital, with the institutional habitus of social agents within the Education Field functioning as an educational habitus. The key agents in this field are "teachers" and "students," where teachers operate in the field of production and students in the field of consumption. Based on their habitus, capital, and the logic of the Education Field, these agents compete to achieve the field's goal, which is the accumulation of embodied cultural capital.

Keywords

• Pierre Bourdieu
• Genetic structuralism
• Field Theory
• effective Education Field

Main Subjects

• Foundations of Education

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