Formulating strategies or national policy regarding children's literature Journal Article

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On one hand, people and civil society institutions have worked hard to shape this category, and on the other hand, the government and quasi-governmental and semi-governmental forces have tried to determine its goals. While in the West, children's literature is advanced by collective wisdom, which has built the pattern of national policy in an unwritten but very perceptible way based on historical experience. The community of children's literature in Iran, due to the dominance of external forces until the recent period, has not been able to propose and expand theoretical subjects in this field. Therefore, whether we want it or not, in the next two decades, the concept of an instrumental view of children's literature, which is a characteristic of peripheral societies including Iran, will either give way to popular (mass) literature or be replaced by a creative and aesthetic perspective. For example, from now until ten years into the future, an Iranian writer can, without government supervision and intervention, place their text in the form of electronic books on internet sites. Iranian children's literature, from the aspect of rereading history, within social and economic formulations, has traversed or is traversing two major periods. We fall short in creative children's literature, and also because of the nature of globalization, which has drawn governments into conflict with itself, brought borders close to collapse, and faded words and concepts such as national identity, we will witness the collapse of the instrumental section of Iranian children's literature.