نشریه مطالعات ملی
سال چهاردهم شماره 3 (پیاپی 55، پاییز 1392)

The aim of the present research is the study of the impact of internet on family values. The research method is descriptive (survey) and statistical population (10642) included all undergraduate and graduate students at Shahid Beheshti University in the academic year 1389-90. A sample of 372 students was selected through stratified random sampling to participate in the study. The results of correlation-coefficient indicated a converse significant relationship between variables of dependence to internet، intimacy climate، discussion and group debate، affectionate relationships in interactive internet environment and the rate of using internet with family values. In other words، the rate of these variable increases because of the entrance of students into interactive internet environment، and therefore the family values decreases. The result of multi-variable regression indicated that the variables of affectionate relationships and awareness of the family of the use of internet by their children respectively have the most important roles in explaining the variance of family values. The results which were obtained from the t-test also indicated that female students have higher family values compared to male students.

This study examined attitudes of academic administrators about various components such as national identity، national values، religious values، human values and community values. The research methods are qualitative and quantitative، and the sample is 274 male and female managers from different level of study in Mazandaran province. The study also included qualitative interviews with five heads of provincial education. The method of data collection is field study that conducted with questionnaires in quantitative section and semi-structured interviews in qualitative section. Research findings indicate that some components of national and religious values are realized but human values and society dimensions of national identity are not realized. Findings from interviews with executives indicate that the primary period due to its infrastructure is the best course for the training of national identity. Also، the main disadvantage of the educational system is the absence of comprehensive and widespread national identity training. Therefore it is necessary to perform both formal and non-formal education for training national identity in different education periods according to the age and developmental features.

Iranian’s national identity is partially developed through interaction between government’s language policy and the citizens’ attitude toward foreign languages. The social position assumed for English teachers provides them with the opportunity to observe the results of this interaction in terms of the students’ identity. The present study aims to investigate teachers’ evaluation of foreign language plans and policies during the past 15 years in Iran. Theoretical foundations of this research are adopted from theories developed within the discipline of language policy and planning، social constructionism، and theories of interaction between national identity and foreign language teaching. 120 experienced English teachers filled a validated 20-item questionnaire، and the collected data was analyzed using two-dimensional chi square test. The results of the study show that while there has been a significant progress in codification and elaboration stages، no significant and positive changes were observed in formulation، implementation، and cultivation stages. The identity challenges associated with English language teaching are discussed، and a number of solutions to deal with the problem are proposed.

Main changes have taken place in cultural، social، political، and economical fields throughout the word، especially in our country in recent years. In this regard، realizing the public culture and its effective elements among people as well as the politicians and material developers who are responsible for transferring the cultural concepts into textbooks is efficient. The components of public culture include: social-cultural، religious، financial، and political which either of them is divided into different sub-category. This inquiry is a descriptive research & is placed in the group of applied inquire. The method used in this reserch is descriptive & content analysis tools. Using this method، the content of farsi “let’s read and write” text of elementary school were analysed & also the general goals of Islamic republic of iran، the goals of elementary school & the goals of farsi “let’s read and write” text were reviewed. The results of content analysis showed that prioritizing of the components of public culture is close to each other in the farsi “let’s read and write” books of the first five grades in elementary level while in the content of farsi “let’s read and write” books in elementary level، the most focus is on the component of social-cultural with 55/95% and then the focus is averted to the component of religious with 20/61% and after that the focus is on financial one with 12/11% and finally on political with 11/32%.

The main aim of this study was to investigate the amount of emphasis on components of national identities in Persian literature textbooks in the High school. Research method was survy research. Research have two statistical population contain whole part of high school Persian literature text books and all literature theachers in the Hamadan city in 2012 (N=154). The statistical sample number for text book is equal with population and for literature theachers was 109 that selected with random simpling approatch. The instruments used to gather data consist of a researcher made of national identities component. Data were analyzed using the descriptive statistical indices and inferential statistics such as t tests. The most important findings are: In total Persian literature text books have low emphasis on natoinal identities (1. 68 of 5). Persian literature text books have highest emphasis on religious، cultural and natio-political components and the lowest empasis on sub-cultural and geographical ones; in a descending order. The results indicated that there are significant diferences between average of whole part of national identity components with theoretical average and this mean is that have low emphsis on this component in high school Persian literature textbooks.

Media is one of the most important sources of identity-building in the modern era. But there are two viewpoints about its impact on the identity of subjects. One of them regards the subject as a passive entity towards media identity discourse. The other considers a more active role for subjects and believes in identity resistance. Given media diversity and multiplicity at the world scale and the subject''s choosing power، on the basis of the second viewpoint، the researchers have examined mass media''s impact on the collective identity among high school students in Yasouj. According to the findings of this research، national and provincial televisions are at the top of the media used by respondents، and ethnic، national and global identities are placed at their collective identity prominence respectively. Meanwhile neither all media have similar impacts on a kind of collective identity and nor a single media has similar impact on various kinds of collective identity. Also findings indicate that the students'' ethnic identity has been paralleled with reinforcing national identity and weakening their global identity.

The occurrence of the third industrial revolution known as the digital revolution in the area of communications has led to a change which is known as globalization. Globalization، meaning the closeness of countries and nations to each other in various areas has had different political outcomes that one of the most challenging is in the culture. Some thinkers equate globalization with the domination of western culture. In contrast، some others view it as an opportunity for groups with subcultures in multi-cultural societies to introduce their own cultures in a global environment through the Internet and other communication technologies. The optimistic approach toward globalization for groups with subcultures has given rise to question of whether such an effect challenges national consensus in multi-cultural societies. Because، national consensus means to the agreement of members of a society on shared beliefs، norms and values. Due to the growth of the middle class especially students، and their increased use of the Internet، the Iranian society is not immune from such a peril، either. This study attempts to explain the relationship between the use of the internet and its impacts on national consensus in Iran. This study is a survey research which uses questionnaires for data collection. The statistical population comprises all the students studying at the University of Isfahan in 2012 among whom 184 students were selected by quota random sampling. The research findings and the related statistical activities were performed by using SPSS and Amos programs. By dividing the amount of using Internet into two levels of amount and type of use and dividing national consensus into three aspects of cultural، legal، and political consensus، the research findings reveal that there is a significant correlation between these factors.

Nowadays، functions of mass media such as television and its impacts on national identity and solidanty in societies are very controversial. ESHRAGH TV channel has established and initiated its programs in Zanjan since last decade. This article tries to reply to this question that what were the performances of ESHRAGH channel to promote national identity and solidarity? The population sample of survey selected according to Cochran formula is 230 and was collected by questionnaire technique; applying key national identity variables including religious، linguistic، literature، costumes and so on in Zanjan province. Validity and reliability of checklist were determined by Cronbach`s alpha which the result was 0/85، that is reliable. Interestingly، considering importance of above viable in promoting national identity and coherence، ESHRAGH channel has had a proper performance.