Market-oriented approaches to higher education in the 1390s

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Roozbeh Aghajari 1
Abbas Varij Kazemi 2
1 Ph.D. candidate in the Institute of Social and cultural studies. Tehran. Iran
2 Associate Professor at the Institute of Social and cultural studies. Tehran. Iran
10.61838/kman.irphe.29.4.1
Abstract
The marketization of higher education is a set of structures, procedures, and practices that make the university system more and more subject to the requirements of the market. In this article, in the beginning, we tried to describe the dimensions of this marketization and show at what levels it operates. An important level of marketization practices includes theoretical and academic justifications, which we mentioned as market-oriented approaches. In this article, we classified these theoretical practices to justify marketization in Iranian universities in the framework of several specific approaches: 1) indigenous Islamism, 2) Radical market orientation, 3) Developmental market orientation, and 4) Expedients market orientation. We traced these approaches in the works of leading academic figures and showed that although the place of the first three approaches is in the university, in a part of the fourth approach there is a mediator through which these academic approaches reach the structure of administrative institution (government) and legislating institution (Parliament) has an effect. This mediator has been filled by those whom we mentioned as "bureaucratic Agents". We tried to explain the effect of this mediator through the review of some policy-making texts. In this article, we have used documentary and meta-analysis methods. We have tried to show to what extent market-oriented approaches are rooted and widespread among expert opinions, academic research and analysis, and common beliefs and opinions in Iranian universities. 

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  • Receive Date 22 September 2022
  • Revise Date 03 July 2023
  • Accept Date 08 July 2023
  • Publish Date 23 December 2023