About Us
The Institute for Research on History of Children’s Literature is a non -governmental and non-profit organization that was founded in 2000 by enthusiastic researchers in the field of children’s literature. In the past ten years the Institute has been engaged in valuable national and international activities.
The office is located in Tehran and is staffed by regular employees as well as volunteers.
The Institute for Research on History of Children’s Literature is funded through donations, publications and implementation of cultural projects. Any income gained by the Institute is spent on expanding goals and further achievements.
Our Goals
- Prepare the ground and expand historical research on culture and literature of Iranian children
- Promote and develop childhood studied at national level
- Collect, restore and make use of valuable historical information on cultural life of Iranian children
- Collect children’s books and journals from Iranian ethnic groups, from the time the printing industry was introduced in Iran to 1979
- Train young researchers
- Expand the research library on history of children’s literature
- Establish cultural links between the community of children’s literature in Iran and the international community of children’s literature
- Found the Iranian national museum of children’s culture and literature
- Design and implement computer programs in line with children’s culture and literature
- Support and distribute fundamental and practical research on children’s culture
Our Activities
The first item on the agenda for the Institute for Research on History of Children’s Literature was to conduct an extensive research on history of children’s literature. The outcome of the research was a collection of ten volumes of “The History of Children’s Literatures”; of which seven volumes have been published. This major and valuable work led to many other activities at the Institute, namely establishment of a research library; creation of a data bank on children’s culture and literature; collection of thousands of bibliographies on books for children and young adults; collection of hundreds of articles for and about children and young adults, as well as hundreds of documents and items for the future National Museum of Children’s culture &literature.
While the above projects are ongoing, new activities have been recently added to the agenda:
Research projects are being conducted on childhood studies as well as on creative education , in line with the latter the Institute has established a Fund for empowerment and education of working children. Aside from publications of educational books the Institute has launched websites including “Ketabak” to promote reading and “Hod Hod",the Portal of Children Cultural Bridge.
- History of children’s Literature
- Library
- Childhood Studies
- Museum
- Iranak
- Ketabak
- Hod Hod
- Publications
- Child Centered Creative Education
- Fund for Education and Empowerment of Working Children
