Challenges of Teachers' Political-Guild Action and Their Association (2020s)

Shahriari, Heidar; Balaghi Inalu, Ehsan

doi:10.22034/ipsa.2023.492

Challenges of Teachers' Political-Guild Action and Their Association (2020s)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Heidar Shahriari ¹

Ehsan Balaghi Inalu ²

¹ Faculty of political science at Shiraz University

² PhD candidate of political science at Shiraz University

https://doi.org/10.22034/ipsa.2023.492

Abstract

Teachers' political-guild action during 2020s can be considered a grindstone and a new phase of teachers' political-guild action in contemporary history of Iran. This action is not only and typically differentiated with teachers' political-guild action over last decades, but, is also distinguished in respect of formality, stratification, comprehension, participation and continuity from other guilds' protest action such as labors, truckers, mines etc. The key point is that this action like any other guilds' action has faced some challenges when attempted to achieve its' professional and public aims. Thereby, this survey leads not only to recognizing challenges and obstacles of teachers' guild action but also recognizing and eradicating the challenges and obstacles of other guilds' action through a comparing study. Accordingly, the basic question is "which challenges of teachers' political-guild action has been the most important challenges during 2020s'? In response, this survey, which has conducted through library and semi-structured interview methods of data acquisition, has hypothesized that teachers have three inner challenges (interest conflict, association disability and the lack of cohered strategy) and three outer challenges (policy inefficiency, policy-makers' lack of optimism and international environment) regarding their political-guild action. By analyzing quantitative data (through average measurement and frequency percent) and qualitative data (through prominence technique), this survey has proved that the policy-making inefficiency and the disability of practical-theoretical strategy, respectively, have the most influence and international environment has the least influence among challenging parameters.

Keywords

association

action

challenges

policymaking

inefficiency

guilds

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