The role of Franklin Publishing Institute in the centralization of primary textbook printing in Iran during the Pahlavi period From 1357 to 1336.

Abstract

The monopoly on textbook printing should be seen as a move towards centralization in education, which absolute governments were keen to do. In Iran, monopolies in education increased when the government was in a state of centralism, and conversely, when the central power was challenged, it filled the diversity of the educational space. With the occupation of Iran in September 1941 and the fall of Reza Shah's authoritarian government, a period of decentralized rule began and a great deal of taste and diversity arose in the field of textbooks. The Pahlavi government, which had taken a step towards centralism with the coup d'état of August 19, 1953, and saw this happen by being in the Western bloc, monopolized the printing of elementary textbooks with the help of the Franklin Publishing Company, an American company. Although the government since 1963. With the founding of the Textbook Organization, he's seemingly focused on the area under his supervision, but that did not diminish the influence of the Franklin Institute. In this article, an attempt has been made to study the formation of educational order through the organization of textbooks in a descriptive-analytical manner and relying on historical documents. Although the attempt to centralize the printing of textbooks was somewhat successful, since the government could not oversee the issue, we are witnessing the formation of a rent with the transfer of part of the government's privilege to a non-Iranian institution, which has met with many protests and oppositions.

Keywords

• franklin publishing
• institute
• textbooks
• textbook‌ organization
• centralism
• second pahlavi