Document Type : Research Paper
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In this study we argue that establishing fostering department in Iranian education system has been, and indeed is expected to be, based upon some philosophical presuppositions that work as foundations for decision making in this filed. we have tried to evaluate this department by discovering and examining its philosophical foundations. Two of these presupposition based on which we assessed the idea of establishing this department in education, that focuses its efforts on spiritual affairs, are as follows. 1- there is an unbridgeable gap between knowledge and value, and this is the reason why we need to establish two different sectors or departments in education system, one for educational affairs and the second for spiritual affairs. 2- the main factors responsible for actions, namely knowledge, want and the will, are different in their nature. So there is a need to make different sectors for these different factors to be developed. As we have argued, the first one has been rejected, and the second can only partly be right. After all, we have shown that since knowledge and value, on the one hand, and knowledge, want and will, on the other hand, are sides of one entity, there can not be a real distance and distinction between educational and fostering or spiritual affairs in education system.
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