scholarly journals Community Learning Centers Program as an Educational Tool for Community Literacy Development in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Community of Golshan as a Case Study

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Akbar Zolfaghari ◽  
Mohammad Shatar ◽  
Azam Zolfaghari
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Development ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Community Literacy ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Learning Centers ◽  
Community Learning Centers ◽  
Community Learning ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran

scholarly journals Education for Rural Transformation: The Role of Community Learning Centers in Nepal

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanka Nath Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Learning Centers ◽  
Community Learning Centers ◽  
Community Learning ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Rural Transformation ◽  
Childhood Care

The main purpose of this paper is to document the potential contributions of the community learning centers in the process of rural transformation and explore how formal, non-formal and informal education are blended for capital formation, empowerment and self sufficiency of the rural communities. Discussions and arguments presented in this paper are based on secondary sources supplemented by a field-based case study. Nepal’s rural communities over the years are facing poverty, deprivation and ignorance. Education and skills for life are particularly important to combat rural poverty and deprivation by developing capacity of rural people to take advantage of available opportunities for reducing economic and non-economic poverty. Community learning centers (CLCs) as the local educational institutions outside the formal structure, can create various learning options and opportunities, responding to the diverse needs of the rural communities living in a complex situation. Referring to a case study, the paper has advocated that CLCs can be instrumental in rural transformation by offering diverse programs in education and community services such as:  early childhood care and development, good quality primary education for all children, second chance basic education for youth, literacy and post literacy programs, women education program, vocational skill development, income generating programs and community development services for improving the quality of life of rural people. The paper further suggested that CLC has potential to offer assistance to the students of local schools in improving their academic achievement and to serve as a local institutional base offering technology-based open and distance learning opportunities and engage rural people in lifelong learning and continuing education.

scholarly journals The role of federal and state policy in addressing early childhood achievement gaps: parent perceptions and student outcomes related to 21st Century Learning Centers programming in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather P. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Learning Centers ◽  
Community Learning Centers ◽  
Community Learning ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractAs policymakers and school communities work to address underlying causes of achievement gaps and access to quality early childhood education, this study considers the use of 21st Century Community Learning Centers to address early childhood education needs on western U.S. state, Idaho. The study sought to understand the relationship between federal and state policies related to out-of-school opportunities to enhance early childhood education. Utilizing data from a statewide evaluation of Idaho’s 21st Century Learning Centers, the study examined 92 centers providing after school, before school, or summer programs in grades preschool through the third grade to predominately at-risk children. Data collection included quantitative data from a survey given to parents (n = 183), as well as qualitative data collected through site-based interviews, focus groups and observations. Data included a review of historical and current data on participation rates; attendance rates; standardized test scores for program participants in grades PK-3 (n = 3258). Data were analyzed for themes and transfer. The study findings provide further insight into understanding possible relationships between U.S. federal and state policy regarding 21st Century Community Learning Centers on both students’ outcomes and parent satisfaction. The findings further support the role of out-of-school time (OST) experiences in the larger ecosystem of learning and provides insight into understanding how the OST activities are carried over into family life.

scholarly journals Regional Security Arrangements and Foreign Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran Case Study: Shanghai Cooperation Organization

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Majid Divsalar ◽  
Ebrahim Javadi Veshki
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International System ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Shanghai Cooperation Organization ◽  
Security Measure ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran ◽  
Policy Behavior ◽  
Foreign Policy Behavior

In international system scene, interests and strategies for ensuring these interests are among key strategies of powerful countries. Therefore, super powers, organize security in different geographical areas through competition in order to challenge competitors and threaten them. Shanghai cooperation organization (SCO), as the most important security measure, has been developed by influence of competitive atmosphere in international system by help of Russian, China and some other important regional allies in response to transatlantic actions. As a result, this security measure could control peripheral threats in the region. In this regard, Islamic Republic of Iran, has considered emergence of this regional security measure as a serious threat for its national and regional interests and has acted to suppress them in the framework of its defense diplomacy. Considering this, authors try to answer this question that how Shanghai cooperation organization as security measure can influence the foreign policy behavior of Islamic Republic of Iran? By studying and analyzing how and why Shanghai cooperation organization (SOC) around Islamic Republic of Iran and determining foreign policy of super powers in establishing this organization, its effect on the foreign policy behavior of Islamic Republic of Iran is considered.

scholarly journals Designing a System Model of Accountability in Tax System of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Case Study of Mazandaran Province Tax Affairs Directorates)

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (43) ◽  
pp. 7-34
Author(s):  
محمدرضا صبح خیز ◽  
علی مهدی زاده اشرفی ◽  
تورج مجیبی ◽  
محمود اوتادی
Keyword(s):  
System Model ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Mazandaran Province ◽  
Tax System ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document