Analyzing and investigating the functions of the center for intellectual development of children and teenagers in the second Pahlavi period

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1 Researcher of contemporary history of Iran and Islamic revolution

2 Assistant Professor of Sociology Department of Imam Khomeini and Islamic Revolution Research Institute

10.30465/hcs.2023.43751.2724

Abstract

The Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Adolescents began to operate as one of the cultural institutions in the second Pahlavi period, in 1344. The main question is, what were the functions and malfunctions of the center in relation to the Pahlavi government and Iranian society? In this research, with a historical approach and based on the documentary method and relying on the main sources and documents of archival centers, magazines and oral interviews, the center's activities have been discovered, described and analyzed. The findings of the research show that this cultural institution, during its twelve years of operation, by establishing several libraries and carrying out various activities in the field of books, theater, cinema, animation and music, provides children and teenagers with books, cultural activities and most importantly what He passed around them and introduced them. Although the center by attracting a part of the intellectuals of the left and protesting the government, it made them passive to a great extent; However, he could not fulfill the task of raising a generation loyal to the ideal of the Pahlavi monarchy, which should be prepared for "entering the stage of modernity" and great civilization. Therefore, the center for the Pahlavi government is dysfunctional; But it has had positive hidden functions for Iranian society. Writers, directors, actors and painters who started their careers from the center, after the overthrow of the Pahlavi government, their art was put at the service of the revolution.

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- Mohseni Ardehali, Salma (2014) A Light in the Darkness, A glance on an Iranian Theatre and Puppet Theatre Center, Puppetry International Magazine,2014, p.2.
2- Milani, Abbas (2008) Eminent Persians: Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran 1941-1979, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, 2 volumes,.838.

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