Iranian Science Corps
Science Corps aka Literacy Corps was one of the three corps in Iran managed by the Ministry of Education and Ministry of War before the 1979 revolution. They were a public education program part of principle number 6 of the White Revolution. The Corps trained around 100,000 Iranian students and adults. People hired by the Corps were first trained by the Imperial Iranian Army for 4 months and then employed as teachers and educators by the Education Ministry and deployed to public schools and villages to serve for a period instead of their conscription.[1][2]
The Literacy Corps also helped raise the nation's literacy rate from 26 to 42 percent.[3]
Before the 1979 revolution Khomeini was a vocal critic of the Science Corps questioning their works and saying they secretly brought influences of American culture.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/95954
- ↑ "بانی سپاه دانش – DW – ۱۳۹۹/۶/۱". dw.com.
- ↑ Abrahamian, Ervand (2008). A History of Modern Iran. Cambridge University Press. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-521-82139-1.
- ↑ "دلایل مخالفت امام(س) با طرح های سپاه دانش و اصلاحات ارضی". www.imam-khomeini.ir.
- Foundation, Encyclopaedia Iranica. "Welcome to Encyclopaedia Iranica". iranicaonline.org.
- Sabahi, Farian (November 10, 2001). "The literacy corps in Pahlavi Iran (1963-1979) : political, social and literary implications". CEMOTI, Cahiers d'Études sur la Méditerranée Orientale et le monde Turco-Iranien. 31 (1): 191–220. doi:10.3406/cemot.2001.1578 – via www.persee.fr.
- "The Literacy Corps in Pahlavi Iran, 1963-1979". The Netherlands: Universiteit Leiden. 2002.
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