Introduction: Technological advances as well as science and information explosion necessitate the change in students’ educational needs and in the education system. Researchers consider resistance to change as one of the major causes of the failure of changes. Therefore, the purpose of this review study was to identify the causes of resistance to change and provide solutions to overcome it. Met...

Iranian political thought was transformed in the Seljuq period. In this transformation, political power and administration of social affairs promoted the monarchy as a non – rival concept to the sphere of politics. In the plurality of causes and multiplication of contributions involved in this process, political writers, who rather than thinking, were also involved in stabilization of this patt...

The twentieth century, with two bloody global wars and numerous killings, brought thinking about the West's new crisis about to the center of thought, a crisis whose backgrounds, according to some, should be sought in the existing political thought. Leo Strauss was among the philosophers who attempted to present a plan of a Western crisis or, in his words, a new-era crisis from the perspective ...

People of Daylaman and Gilan, due to their opposition to the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphs, were not compatible to them. In order to spread their protest movement, the people of Daylaman did support the Alawites who had emerged as an ideological and political alternative to the Abbasids. During the early years of taking power, the people were able to have some important achievements in Gilan and ...