Cultural and social pathology of the students’ reading in Tehran province

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Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Hassan Razavi sadr ¹
• Fereshteh Sepehr ²
• Zohreh Mirhosseini ³
• zahra Abazari ³

¹ ph D student of KIS, Humanity Sciences Faculty, Islamic Azad University, Tehran North Branch.

² Assistant professor, Department of KIS, Humanity Sciences Faculty, Islamic Azad University, Tehran North Branch.

³ Associate professor, Department of KIS, Humanity Sciences Faculty, Islamic Azad University, Tehran North Branch.

10.22067/infosci.2024.68917.1014

Abstract

Introduction: Reading promotion needs expansive view. Pathology of reading should strengthen reading motivation, expand horizon and, create new attitude for students. But, concentration on determination of dimensions of the students’ reading harms in Iran’s schools has been ignored. The purpose of this study is to identify effective cultural and social components of the students’ reading in Tehran province.

Methodology: This study is an applied research and mixed one that was conducted by Library Studies method, Delphi and Analytical Survey. Research population consisted of two groups: 30 cultural experts of education offices (Delphi panel) and 379 teachers of primary and high schools (quantitative part) from Tehran province in school year of 1397-98. The questionnaires were distributed among teachers by way of stratified random. The data were analyzed by using one sample t-test and analysis of variance test in SPSS version 22.

Findings: We found that there is significant relationship among cultural and social components and rate of students’ reading and in level of teachers’ different university degrees, too. In this study, book reading teaching in schools and social harms had the most important role on increase and decrease adolescents’ reading in turn.

Conclusions: Teaching of book reading in schools, and decrease social harms by reading, can increase reading and hope in the society.

Keywords

• Cultural harms
• school students
• Extracurricular study
• Social harms
• Tehran province

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