Biography:Khosrow Bagheri

Short description: Iranian philosopher of education

Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast
Khosrow B N
Born	1957 Tehran, Iran
Nationality	Iranian
Alma mater	UNSW Sydney
Institutions	University of Tehran

Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast (in Persian: خسرو باقری نوع پرست) is an Iranian philosopher, educational theorist and the president of Philosophy of Education Society of Iran (PESI).

Biography

Bagheri was born in 1957 in Tehran. He took his Ph.D. degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 1994. He is Professor of Philosophy of Education at the University of Tehran. He has made contributions to a wide range of topics in philosophy of education, Religion and personal construct psychology; topics from different viewpoints, such as constructive realism, neo-Pragmatism, action theory, deconstruction, Hermeneutics, and Islamic philosophy of education. In 2011 he was awarded First order Medal of Research (The Distinguished Researcher) by the University of Tehran.

Philosophical views

Religious education

In his book Islamic Education he places human agency as the main educational thesis of Islam. This is while before him scholars such as Mutahari believed in human nature as the center of Islamic education. He opposes nature as a central key to Islamic education claiming that human beings are not composed of non-living matter to be fabricated into a human being. Instead a human is a dynamic creature who should choose being religious. In this regard he has introduced abstinence by presence. While most scholars have insisted that religion is about preventing sinful situations Bagheri insists that real education leads to presence in a sinful situation and yet remain intact.

Personal construct theory

He argues that in George Kelly's personal construct psychology a combination of correspondence theory of truth and a coherence theory of truth is necessary. Offering criteria for a reconciliation of correspondence and coherence theories he argues that constructivism should be based on a reality and the effort is to search for an optimal point where reality and constructs reach each other.

Religious science

Most Classic Islamic Philosophers followed or concurred with Aristotle in understanding knowledge as grasping the form of a thing. This was possible in two ways, one by divine inspiration (which might be called intuition), or by sensory apprehension. They did not question, as many philosophers do today, whether sensory information was reliable. Either of these perspectives or a combination of them has led some to conclude that a science based on religion can lead to infallible knowledge. However, Bagheri argues that a religious science is only possible through interference of religious elements in the presupposition of a theory and hence will remain a science tout court, and its religious presuppositions will not guarantee infallible knowledge.

Publications

A non-comprehensive list of Bagheri's published works include:

In English

• Bagheri Noaparast, Khosrow (1995). "Toward a more realistic constructivism". Advances in Personal Construct Psychology (London: JAI Press Inc) 3: 37–59. 
• Bagheri Noaparast, Khosrow (2000). "Constructs and words". Constructivism in the Human Sciences (Denton, TX, USA) 5 (1): 65–70. 
• Bagheri, Khosrow (2001). Islamic Education. UK: Alhoda. ISBN 978-964-472-328-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=33EgDQLZBicC. 
• Bagheri Noaparast, Khosrow (2005). "A hermeneutical model for research on the evaluation of academic achievement". Quarterly Journal of New Thoughts on Education (Iran: Al-Zahra University) 1 (1 & 2): 5–12. 
• Bagheri Noaparast, Khosrow (2005). "Towards an Islamic psychology: An introduction to remove theoretical barriers". Psychological Studies (Iran: Al-Zahra University) 1 (4): 5–17. 
• Bagheri Noaparast, Khosrow (2006). "Islamic concept of education reconsidered". American Journal of Islamic Social Science (Herndon, VA, USA) 23 (4 (Fall)): 88–103. 
• Bagheri Noaparast, Khosrow; Khosravi, Zohre (2006). "Mind and mental health based on a realistic constructivism". Constructivism in the Human Sciences (Denton, TX, USA) 11 (1 & 2): 20–31. 
• Bagheri Noaparast, Khosrow (2009). The Idea of a Religious Social Science. Tehran: Alhoda. 
• Bagheri Noaparast, Khosrow; Khosravi, Zohre (2010). "A Dynamic Conception of Human Identity, Cultural Relation, and Cooperative Learning". Intercultural Education 21 (3): 281–290. doi:10.1080/14675981003760465. 
• Bagheri Noaparast, Khosrow; Khosravi, Zohre (2011). "Deconstructive Religious education". Religious Education 106 (1): 82–104. doi:10.1080/00344087.2011.539449. 
• Bagheri Noaparast, Khosrow (2012). "Al-Attas Revisited on the Islamic Understanding of Education". Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies 5 (2): 149–172. doi:10.1353/isl.2012.0010. 
• Bagheri Noaparast, Khosrow (2013). "Celebrating Moderate Dualism in the Philosophy of Education: A Reflection on the Hirst-Carr Debate". Journal of Philosophy of Education 47 (4): 564–576. doi:10.1111/1467-9752.12039. 
• Bagheri Noaparast, Khosrow (2013). "Physical and spiritual education within the framework of pure life". International Journal of Children's Spirituality 18 (1): 46–61. doi:10.1080/1364436X.2012.741062. 

In Persian

• Bagheri, Khosrow (1990) (in fa). Negahi dobare be tarbiate eslami. Tehran: Madrese Publications. 
• Bagheri, Khosrow (1999) (in fa). Mabani-e shivehayei tarbiate akhlaghi: Naghde tatbighie Elme Akhlagh va ravanshenasie moaser. Tehran: Sazeman Tablighat Eslami Publications. 
• Bagheri, Khosrow (2002) (in fa). Chistie Tarbiate Dini: bahse o goftegoo ba Prof. Paul Hirst. Tehran: Tarbiate Eslami Publications. 
• Bagheri, Khosrow (2004) (in fa). Hoviate Elme Dini. Tehran: Vezarate Farhang Publications. 
• Bagheri, Khosrow (2004) (in fa). Mabanie falsafie Feminism. Tehran: Vezarate Oloum Publications. 
• Bagheri, Khosrow (2006) (in fa). Negahi dobare be tarbiate eslami. 2. Tehran: Madrese Publications. 
• Bagheri, Khosrow (2008) (in fa). No-amalgarayei va falsafei talimo tarbiat. Tehran: Tehran University Publications. 
• Bagheri, Khosrow; Khosravi, Zohreh (2009) (in fa). Nazariyehayei ravanshenasie moaser: be soyei sazegarayei vaghegarayane. Tehran: Elm Publications. 
• Bagheri, Khosrow (2009) (in fa). Daramadi bar falsafei talim o tarbiate jomhoorie eslamie Iran, Vol.1. Tehran: Elmi Farhangi Publications. 
• Bagheri, Khosrow (2010) (in fa). Daramadi bar falsafei talim o tarbiate jomhoorie eslamie Iran, Vol.2. Tehran: Elmi Farhangi Publications. 
• Bagheri, Khosrow; Sajjadieh, Narges; Tayebe Tavasoli (2011) (in fa). Rooykardha va Raveshhaye Pazhuhesh Dar Falsafei Ta'lim o Tarbiat. Tehran: Pazhuheshkadei motaleate farhangi va ejtemaee. 
• Bagheri, Khosrow (2011) (in fa). Olgooye Matloobe Amoozesho Parvaresh Dar Jomhoorie Eslamie Iran. Tehran: Madrese Publications. 
• Bagheri, Khosrow (2012) (in fa). Goftegoohaie da babe ilme dini. Tehran: Pajuheshgahe Ulume Insani Publications. 
• Bagheri, Khosrow (2012) (in fa). Nazarie: ilme tajrobie dini. Tehran: Korsihaye Nazariyepardazi. 
• Bagheri, Khosrow (2012) (in fa). Noavari: Talim va tarbiat Islami. Tehran: Korsihaye Nazariyepardazi. 
• Bagheri, Khosrow (2013) (in fa). GofteGoyei Moalem va Filsoof. Tehran: Elmi Farhangi Publications. 

Translations

Bagheri has translated the following books into Persian:

• Laing, R. D. (2010). The divided self: An existential study in sanity and madness. UK: Penguin. 
• Scheffler, Israel (1985). Of Human Potential. An Essay in the Philosophy of Education. Routledge & Kegan Paul Inc. ISBN 9780710205711. https://archive.org/details/ofhumanpotential00isra. 
• Adams, P. L., Milner, J. R., & Schrepf, N. A. (1984). Fatherless children. 

External links

• Homepage on academia.edu
• Interview on Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory
• Interview in the Adirondackreview
• Neo-Pragmatism in Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory