Iranian self-images from a schoolbook perspective; A contribution to the Iranian-German cultural dialogue

The topic of this text is collective identity formation using Iran as an example. The text deals with Iranian self-perception as a precondition for any long-term cultural dialogue between Iran and Germany or any other cultural dialogue partner. The idea behind this is that dialogue partners should first of all ask themselves questions about their own collective identity and thus draw an overall picture of themselves that is as realistic as possible and not idealized, before they are confronted with and possibly overwhelmed by their own image drawn by the other and from a foreign perspective. The text is based on the concept of culture in the main source on which this study is based, namely an Iranian textbook for the upper secondary school with a focus on the humanities and social sciences. It is the textbook "Cultural Analysis - Textbook for Cultural Studies", which was first published in the year ۲۰۱۷. From its perspective, four Iranian self-images are presented and analysed in more detail here. The main questions of the text are: how has the collective identity of Iranians been formed in the course of history? And how do the Iranian self-images relate to each other as components of an overall image?

کلیدواژه ها:

Kultureller Dialog ، Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung ، iranische Identität ، Lehrbuch ، Kulturbegriff