According to Mehr reporter, the honoring ceremony for selected researchers in the Ministry of Education was held in the presence of Alireza Kazemi, Minister of Education and Hossein Simai Saraf, Minister of Science, Research and Technology, this morning at Shahid Bahonar camp in Tehran.
Minister of Education in this program by pointing out that the organization of research and program tiny Education and Research Institute of Educational Studies are the flagships of the importance of research in the country; He said: Despite the small number of these two institutions; Efforts beyond wide did themselves and had significant successes in the development of research throughout the country are.
Kazemi, pointing out that we are lagging behind where we should be in terms of research; He said: The position of research is one of the most basic indicators of the level of development of countries. In science production, we are in the 16th place in the world, but unfortunately, Iran’s contribution to global research is insignificant. The share of research in the country’s GDP is below one percent, while the global average of the share of research in the GDP is above one and a half percent, or the share of research in developed countries even reaches 7 percent of the GDP of these countries.
He pointed out that for the development of research, we need to decentralize and pay attention to non-governmental and private institutions and companies; He said: Research should be widespread in the society. Unfortunately, our theoretical foundations have a sublime discourse, but we are very weak in the field of practice and implementation of theories at the community level, when we can bring the country to the heights of progress when research is at the top of our theoretical and practical actions.
The Minister of Education pointed out that in the Quran, a quarter of the verses refer to rational thinking and research, and said: We really have to ask ourselves what measures we want to take for the development of research from these foundations and with these religious emphasis.
Kazemi stated that we have two tasks regarding research: one is to increase research activities in schools and the other is to create belief and develop the motivation for central research among students and teachers. These teachers and students are researchers who can produce science for the country.
The Minister of Education emphasized: Education and research are two issues together.
He considered inattention to research as the reason for the failure of the policies of the education system and said: the fact that we are constantly testing and making mistakes with our policies and solutions is because we did not take research seriously. Sometimes we pass a law with great difficulty, and after some time we see what consequences the implementation of that law had for the country.
Emphasizing that we should not neglect the culture and stream of research, Kazemi said: One of the main foundations of the transformation document is the development of teachers and knowledge. the learner As a researcher, we did not have much success in this field, and the reason for this lack of success comes back to the curriculum. The main rail of the education system, which is the curriculum, must return to the research-oriented path. When teacher and knowledge the learner Normally, they are on the research track, they will unconsciously take action to develop the research.
Referring to the lack of research facilities and research institutes, he said: We must have a network of capable research-oriented teachers in every region. Equipping schools with research facilities also requires funds. Unfortunately, the managers are so busy that research has become the 20th priority of the education system.
Referring to the cooperation of the Ministry of Science with the education system in the field of research, Kazemi said: We must reflect our problem system to the country’s universities and research institutes. Part of the research we need in these centers requires facilities aspects; Sometimes by providing the necessary support from us, these research institutes carry out the researches we need. We really have to see how much we could from this research capacity A We should use various libraries in the country’s universities for the development of research.
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