Exploring approaches to the philosophy of childhood to identify it in upstream educational documents in Iran

To identify the philosophy of childhood in upstream educational documents in Iran, the predominant linear and non-linear discourses were examined. All the views from the past to the present were described within traditional and modernist paradigms. Descriptive statements were then compared. The simultaneous comparison of the approaches revealed the most important factor in the conceptualization of the philosophy of childhood to be the absence of a clear definition in upstream documents. This issue has led to contradictions about the compatibility of the monotheistic innatist approach in these documents to traditional and postmodernist approaches. This problem can be resolved by moving away from linear approaches and highlighting the differences between these and non-linear approaches.