Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Adolescents

alipour December 28, 2017 3 دقیقه مطالعه

History

The history of Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, which was established with the aim of providing the necessary facilities for the growth and intellectual and artistic development of children and young adults, dates back to the mid-1340s (Solar Hijri) in 1965, and the arenas of culture, literature, education, and art in Iran witnessed the growth, flourishing, and evolution of this influential institution during these years. The children and young adults of yesterday in Iran have experienced flight with the Institute’s little bird (Morgheak) and have today grown into prominent, aware, thoughtful, and learned men and women of whom Iran is proud today.

Audience

Millions of children and young adults turn the pages of the Institute’s books every day, listen to Iranian tales, stories, parables, and proverbs, and imprint the pure pages of their minds and hearts with the ink of knowledge and awareness.

Centers

The Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, through more than 850 fixed, urban mobile, rural mobile, and postal cultural centers across Iran, and by offering cultural and artistic activities, establishes a face-to-face and close connection with its child and young adult audience.

Activities

The Institute’s instructors in these centers, which house libraries with an open-shelf method, in addition to lending books, offer 40 types of cultural and artistic activities.
Storytelling, poetry reading, puppet shows, film screening, making wall newspapers, reading books, painting, pottery, collage, free discussions, and more are among them.
On the other hand, the cultural, literary, and artistic works produced in this institution cover a wide audience across the country.
Publishing 140 book titles with a circulation of more than 3 million per year, producing thousands of minutes of short, feature, live-action, documentary, and animation films, producing dozens of music tapes, puppet shows, constructive toys and games, and educational computer software are among them.
Also, holding festivals such as \”One Week with the Institute\” (presenting the activities of cultural and artistic centers), storytelling, puppet shows, children and young adults’ books, children and young adults’ press, and the International Animation Festival are other activities of the Institute throughout the year.
Iran Language Institute, which is also a subsidiary of the Institute, has many branches across the country and is responsible for teaching Persian, English, German, French, Spanish, and Arabic languages.
Meanwhile, all the aforementioned activities benefit from a broad research backing, which is carried out in the research department of the Institute.

International

At the same time, the activities of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults are not limited to Iran alone; rather, the Institute’s extensive cooperation with international organizations and the extensive presence of members’ works and cultural and artistic productions in global art competitions are among the international activities of the Institute, through which numerous honors have been brought to Iranian children, young adults, artists, and writers.