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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