Examining Dimensions and Components of the National Identity Index in the Evolutionary Documents of Education in Iran

The purpose of this study was to analyze the National Identity Index, its dimensions and its components in Iranian educational development documents. The research method was a descriptive content analysis. The statistical population included the evolutionary documents (theoretical fundamentals of fundamental change, national curriculum, and fundamental reform document of the Islamic Republic of Iran), with a total of 507 pages without introduction, minutes of meetings, and resources, all of which were statistically sampled by census method (a complete set) were selected and reviewed. Descriptive statistics and Shannon entropy three-step formula were used to measure the payment and analyze the questions. To extract the dimensions and components of the national identity, we referred to the Secretariat of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution (Working Group on the Development of Cultural Indicators) approved in 2011. A team of experts obtained the validity of the checklist and its reliability was determined by the Scott method (93/5), which is known as the consensus method and agreement of the experts. The findings of the study showed that in the educational development documents, 361 cases referred to the six dimensions of the national identity index among which the most attention was paid to culture and cultural heritage with 112 and the least to territorial dimension with 11. The most important result of this study was that the developmental documents of education did not pay attention to the dimensions of the national identity index in a balanced way.