Antagonism between western and Islamic cultures in Iranian English textbooks

Due to its worldwide usage, the necessity of teaching English language is undeniable even in Islamic and religious countries like Iran. However, order avoid ‘cultural invasion’, Iranian government decided ban official curriculum primary schools asked a team experts chosen by Organization for Educational Research Planning design localized textbooks students K12. Thus, response changes vital role education, plethora scholars quantitively investigated locally designed education focusing on objectives, content, culture, gender representation, improvement students’ skills. previous literature does not consider visual content transmitting target culture. this study, we cultural references dimensions representation two series called ‘English Schools’ (Prospect 1-3 Vision 1-3). nature applied qualitative analysis grouping categorizing data. The revealed that utmost portion all six books has been devoted