Development of Science, Interdisciplinary Thinking and the Risk of Fundamental Damage to the Geography of Iran

Despite the significant development of geography filed in Iran in terms of the number of educational centers, methodologies, research and educational approaches, it has not been able to participate in solving the problems of society in line with international development. However, there are a lot of problems in the society that can be potentially solved by geographers. These problems are divided into two groups: The first group is projects that have been approved for decades and for some reasons, their implementation has been postponed. The second group is updated topics, and here, too, new geography curricula make it difficult to demonstrate its practical aspects in geographical understanding of the subject and identify the possible types of participation to solve the problem within interdisciplinary studies. In this context, understanding of the concept of interdisciplinary studies appears in the form of non-professional intervention in other sciences and overlapping tasks instead of solving the problem with each other. Therefore, in the absence of control and involvement of collective thought in explaining and limiting scientific boundaries, entrants in quantitative and engineering sciences may take over the geographical subjects. There are various reasons for the lack of unity and intellectual cohesion among geographers, of which the absence of serious support from geographical executives of this knowledge, poor involvement of geographical associations and powerless performance of journals to focus on research are important factors. Lack of purposeful educational planning on the basis of solving society problems that originates from these weaknesses, creates mental confusion in undergraduates, and prevents them from solving simple problems.  Added to this, the lack of decisive educational planning on the basis of solving the problems of the society that originates from these weaknesses by creating mental confusion in the undergraduates, prevents them from solving even simple problems while in higher education levels, it deprives them of choosing the appropriate subject and producing significant scientific findings. Hence, the activation of scientific associations, the serious cooperation of geographers with the associations, the administrative assistance of educated geography politicians in accordance with the requests of the associations and the serious performance of the journals in guiding and publishing the original researches are the first step to get out of this impasse.