A Critique on the Privitizaatin Policy of Public and Formal Education in the IRAN Educational System

Document Type : پژوهشی

Author

• Mohammad Hassani

Associate professor in RIE( Research Institute for Education), Tehran, Iran

10.22067/fedu.2024.84268.1290

Abstract

In recent decades, privatization in the governance of school education systems has been a focus for policymakers worldwide. In Iran, after the Islamic Revolution, the approval of the Non-Profit Schools Law in 1988 (1367 in the Iranian calendar) marked a significant shift towards privatization in the country's education system.
In recent decades, privatization in the governance of schooling education system has been a focus for policy-makers worldwide. In Iran, after the Islamic Revolution, the approval of the Non-Profit Schools Law in 1988 (1367 in the Iranian calendar) marked a significant shift towards privatization in the country's education system.
The purpose of this study is to identify and criticize the consequences of privatization policy in the environment of school education in Iran, which was done with the method of criticism. Based on the findings of this research, the privatization policy in Iran's schooling educational system has not been able to improve the quality of education in public schools, and after thirty-five years of its implementation, the school education system still has a budget deficit and poor quality. On the other hand, the privatization of schooling educational system has supported the development of social divide and the reproduction of class differences. Also, the privatization policy has the possibility to threaten and destroy the social goals of the  schooling educational system. Therefore, it is necessary to review the policy of privatization in the distribution of school education as a public good and to find a better fit with the cultural foundations and historical experiences of the country. Therefore, it is suggested that in the macro-policies of distribution of school education, there should be a slow turn from privatization to public-charity.
Keywords: schooling education system, non-government school. privatization of school education.
 
Synopsis:
Conclusion
Privatization in the country, despite many emphases by policymakers and senior managers and the rapid growth of this process, close to sixty-four times (Hesam & Bayat, 2015).  has not had suitable results for the official and public education system of the country. In addition to the development of social injustice and the reproduction of the class gap, the threat to the social goals of school education; The intensification of selfishness and conflict with the deep-rooted and historical cultural capital of benevolent collectivism has brought about the development of educational opportunities. This policy is actually a repetition of the experience that was revised during the second Pahlavi era due to the deepening of the class gap (Menashri, 2017); However, after the Islamic revolution, despite the sensitivities and revolutionary tendencies of the first decade of the revolution (attention to the deprived and oppressed), privatization policy has been noticed again.
It seems that it is very necessary to review the macro policies of the country regarding the distribution of the public good of school education. Relevant authorities should enter this field. This policy should also be proportionate to the social capital of the country, and on the other hand, since the cultural current rooted in Iran has been the benevolent distribution of school education, it can become an alternative and competitor to the policy of privatization of school education; That is, it can be used in the current situation in a compensatory and complementary way to serve the development and fair distribution of the school education system; Therefore, it should be considered as an important educational and cultural strategy. According to the existing conditions and the state of private (non-government) schools in Iran, it is suggested to slowly turn from the development of the privatization policy in the distribution of the good of school education to the government distribution with the support of charitable (public) institutions.

Keywords

• schooling education system
• non-government school. privatization of school education

Main Subjects

• Educational Philosophy

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