Modern nomads: education on the way

The challenge of Nomads’ Migration and Nomads’ schools

Abstract: Two annual migrations of nomadic tribes have a large impact on school work and learning of students. This study is a qualitative case study and intends to examine the impact of a reduction in teaching time in nomadic schools. In order to assess the students’ absence from school each year due to two migrations and its negative effects, the researcher used mixed method research(Quantita...

Analyzing the Way of the Nomads’ Life and Its Effect on Their Habitat System along with the Migration Route and summer and Winter Camps Case study: Boyer-Ahmad Nomads

Nomadic life is a way of life with annual relocation in which a group of people moves with their cattle from winter tents to summer pastures and returns to their winter camps in the cold season. The most important characteristic of nomadic life is movement to meet the needs of their life style. This relocation requires certain conditions which overshadow all aspects of nomadic life such as arch...

The challenges of higher education based on Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of modern culture

As has been indicated in some documents, the higher education as an institution has been large history-more than eight century- and in this large history, important event has been happened. Higher education in modern era follows the modernity as encompass movement by the components such as scientism, individualism, mass production, technicism. Arising such tendencies in higher education has enc...

The Archaeology of Eurasian Nomads

Elite Education, Mass Education, and the Transition to Modern Growth

For most of human history there existed a well-educated and innovative elite whereas mass education, market R&D, and high growth are phenomena of the modern period. In order to explain these phenomena we propose an innovation-driven growth model for the very long run in which the individual-specific return to education is conceptualized as an compound of cognitive ability and family background....