Alireza Sadeghi, Dr Akbar Salehi, Dr Saeed Zarghami Hamrah, Dr Yahya Ghaedi,
Volume 13, Issue 47 (2-2024)
Abstract
The aim of the current research is to identify the regimes of truth and effective factors in the discourse formations that shape power-knowledge relations in the teacher training of Iran from the establishment of Dar al-Funun to Farahgian University. For this purpose, by using Foucault's genealogical method and its related hypothesis, it has been analyzed and examined the events in the historical developments of teacher education in Iran that have led to the formation of regimes of truth as the dominant discourse in teacher education. The findings show that in different periods, different discourses such as "educated Mullah", "literate teacher", "expert and literate teacher" and "expert nationalist teacher" as regimes of truth have shaped such discourses and these discourses with changes in the social and political context of the society and with the emergence of new needs, they have been changed and transformed. For example, with the advent of the Islamic revolution, the discourse of "Islamic and revolutionary teacher" is considered as a prominent discourse of truth in teacher education. With this analysis, it is acknowledged that with political and social changes in the course of historical developments of education and training, regimes of truth have replaced past regimes of truth and have led to the rejection or weakening of previous discourses in the teacher training system. Therefore, such a turn in the regimes of truth is caused by power and knowledge relations, which has led to such discourses.
Yahya Ghaedi, Fatemeh Moosavinia, Ramezan Barkhordari, Saeed Zarghami,
Volume 17, Issue 51 (10-2025)
Abstract
Finding meaning from life experiences is one of the main goals of the Philosophy for Children program, which was designed by Matthew Leppiman and is implemented and followed in the research community. In this article, the presuppositions of Lipman's meaning making in the research community are explained and criticized. Criticism of these presuppositions is done based on the approach of Richard Rorty's neopragmatism. Because he is considered one of the important pioneers in the field of criticism of the tradition of western philosophy.. In order to advance this research, we try to answer three questions: 1- What are the presuppositions of finding meaning in the research community? 2 What is Rorty's opinion about these assumptions? 3- Based on the perspective of Rorty's neopragmatism, what are the criticisms on the presuppositions of finding meaning in the research community? ? Due to the criticality of the current research, the method of developmental criticism has been used to criticize the methods of finding meaning in the research community, and the method of content analysis has been used to explain the presuppositions of finding meaning in the research community and also to reveal the foundations of Lipman and Rorty's thought. The findings of the research indicate that Lippmann's dual pragmatist-realist epistemology, his definition of rationality and having a purely instrumental view of language is the point of contrast between his thoughts and Rorty. From Rorty's point of view, the subject of philosophy should be inclined from epistemology to culture, and meaning should be examined as culture. He is of the opinion that language should be considered as an important element, not just as a tool to talk and communicate with others. Therefore, relying on Rorty's thoughts, Lipman's presuppositions of meaning making in the research community need to be fundamentally revised and reconsidered.
