Abbas Madandar Arani

Abbas Madandar Arani
Lorestan University · Department of Education

PhD in Comparative Education

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January 1997 - October 2015
Lorestan University
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This study aims to compare the position of the formal education system of the Islamic Republic of Iran with those of neighboring countries. This is a comparative quantitative study, in which the statistical population was analyzed at the world regions/continents level based on the Bray and Thomas cube. The research sample consisted of Iran and 13 n...
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Over the last two decades of the twentieth century, Iran, like many societies, witnessed the expansion of higher education. During this period, governmental, nongovernmental, and private universities were established, and the number of faculty members and students increased drastically. With the start of the new millennium, the government’s policy...
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Welcome to the official website of First International Conference on Comparative Education (FICCE). FICCE will be held at Khorramabad City,Iran on November 23-24,2017. The main objective of FICCE is to provide a platform for researchers,academicians,practitioners,as well as educational professionals from all over the world to present their research...
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Education and private tutoring activities particularly are under influence of state social policies. The paper uses term “social policy” to show macro social and political attitudes of each state toward education. This paper compares social policies concerning education and its shadow in six states of South Korea with their four counterparts in Ira...
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Purpose – The paper describes the relationship between parents’ and teachers’ demographic factors and their judgments about children’s activities and school readiness in primary schools of Tehran. The purpose of this paper is to determine: first, the relationship between the child’s gender and the frequency of parent-child activities; second, the r...
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At the time of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, I was a Grade 9 student participating in demonstrations against Shah – though I admit that I viewed these activities mostly as a hobby and a way to shut down our classes. Due to the political turmoil, all universities were closed for what turned out to be three years. Even longer was the war betwe...
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Children’s school readiness has received much attention from professionals in the field of education. Nevertheless, scholars in Middle East countries have not investigated this topic in a major way. The purpose of the present study was to determine (i) the most common parent–child activities for first-grade pupils in Tehran primary schools as rated...
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During the last three decades in Iran, the government has had different policies on the privatization of education. After victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the new government closed all private schools for nearly a decade. Establishing and reopening Non-Governmental Schools (NGS) was the first action toward the privatization of education a...
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When the Shah of Iran was overthrown by The Islamic revolution in 1979, we were adolescents closely following political events. Taking part in demonstrations which was frowned upon by teachers was a form of giving vent to our emotions. But we would call off classes and flood into the streets with great jubilation.
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The present study investigated elementary school teachers' competency in relation to their sex and age in India and Iran. 484 teachers were selected through Simple Random Sampling from elementary schools of Mysore city (India) and Arak city (Iran). Subjects consisted of 187 men and 297 women. The tool of study was 'Teachers Competency Scale' develo...

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