Studying the reasons of Iran's illiterate population's disinterest in the country's educational programs; a national research

The objective of the research at hand is studying the reasons of Iran’s illiterate populations’ disinterest in the country’s educational programs; a national research. The statistical society of the research includes all the illiterate adults of the country (10 to 49 years of age) as well as the country’s educators. The participants’ number of each sample research was 384 people who were selected from four provinces, namely Sistan and Baluchstan, West Azerbaijan, Golestan and Qom, through anmixed sampling method. The method and the instrument of collecting information are: questionnaire, documents and semi-organized interviews. In the research, for the narrative calculation of the test, we used content narration and for the final calculation of the test, Kronbach’s Alpha was made use of. The final quotient was calculated as 85 for the illiterate and 90 for the educators. The data of the research were analyzed through T-Hitiling Test. The findings of the research show that according to the qualified ones who could take part in literacy programs, the main reasons of disinterest would be the course objective, literate awareness, place of residence, facilities, timing, job and family matters and awareness of the literacy programs. The educators, on the other hand, recounted its reasons as follows: course objective, facilities and timing, the adaptation of the course to the learning principles of adults, evaluation and feedback, content, support and backup, linguistic matters, organizational regulations and the place of residence. Moreover, after scrutinizing the practical evidence and the observations of the problems of the illiterate, they were categorized into two groups and for each a set of solutions were offered in order to obviate the illiteracy problems of the country.