Chasing Encounters

Questioning the Iranian Education System After the Iranian revolution, there was an education revolution trying to modernize it and thus threatening the traditional values. From Teheran to Toronto, Hooman delves into his critiques of the current Iranian system of education as he asserts that school became an ideological and revolutionary space that is currently empty to give priority to nation-building. He argues that Iran has a segregated system that affects psychologically and socially certain students. Although the system favors science and mathematics, education still revolves around some religious ideologies. He invites us to engage in questions such as: Who is the system for? who are the universities for? What is the quality of education for the current Iranian population? What are the concepts of development in a country in tension with the rest of the world? Bio Hooman Razavi was born in Iran and moved to Canada in 2002. He holds a B.Ed degree and has experience with teaching in Toronto and China for