LEARNAROUND
Meeting Educational Needs in the Face of Repressive Constraints
Sina Mossayeb, Ph.D.
Abstract Based on the concept of education as a universal right, this dissertation analyzes the impact of government repression on the access to and quality of educational opportunities of minority groups, and the strategies used by marginalized and discriminated groups in response to educational inequity under authoritarian regimes. Do minority groups accept, tolerate, resist, or reject the limitations imposed on them? Do they establish their own institutions and services, or leave the country in pursuit of educational opportunity? This dissertation describes and illustrates the situation of three groups: Jews, Christians, and Baha’is, living in modern Iran. I argue that group composition and characteristics, networks, and regime-group relations significantly shape the strategies developed, selected, and deployed by minority groups in meeting educational needs. Relational dynamics between the groups (and their internal communities) and the regime, and other transnational actors are critical motivating factors in the pursuit of educational opportunities. I draw on historical analysis and the mechanism-process approach to identify educational strategies and explain how they are selected, and argue that group features both affect educational strategy selection, and are affected by previous strategies. The relational dynamics of interactions, conditions, processes, and outcomes are considered as causal factors in educational strategy selection.
NOTE: The submitted version of the dissertation can be downloaded below, but the text version found here is an expanded version that did not go through a final editorial pass (which means it may still contain grammatical and formatting errors. However, I feel that the value of the content outweighs the final conciser edited version, and thus have presented it in this digital version called "Learnaround: Meeting Educational Needs in the Face of Repressive Constraints."
NOTE: The submitted version of the dissertation can be downloaded below, but the text version found here is an expanded version that did not go through a final editorial pass (which means it may still contain grammatical and formatting errors. However, I feel that the value of the content outweighs the final conciser edited version, and thus have presented it in this digital version called "Learnaround: Meeting Educational Needs in the Face of Repressive Constraints."
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy under the Executive Committee of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University, New York (2010) by Sina Mossayeb.
Educational Strategy Selection of Religious Minorities in Modern Iran: The Case of the Jewish, Christian, and Baha’i Communities | |
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