Majid rahnema biography
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Majid Rahnema
Development Workshop worked with Dr. Majid Rahnema (1924–2015) on the transformation of his ideas into practice in the Seheleh Integrated Development Project in Luristan Iran in the 1970s. Dr. Rahnema, born in Tehran, was a globally respected educationalist and theoretician promoting the concept of endogenous or locally-driven development. His development approach grew out of collaboration with Paulo Freire and Ivan Illich.
Dr. Rahnema’s work focussed particularly on problems of poverty and production processes of poverty caused by the market economy. In 1971, he founded the Centre for Endogenous Development Studies in Iran. For several years the Centre focused on applying his concerns on poverty to the practical work undertaken by the Centre’s 'Selseleh Integrated Development Project' (SIDP). With a multi-disciplinary group of development workers in Luristan, Western Iran, the aim was to assist Luri nomads address the great difficulties they faced under the forced sedentarization under the Shah’s policies. DW co-founder Farokh Afshar, professor at the University of Guelph's School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, shared that after the revolution his Iranian students reported that the SID Project was considered by some in Iran as a model for t
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Majid Rahnema
Iranian official, economist bear poverty researcher
Majid Rahnema (1924 – 14 April 2015) was a diplomat delighted former Path of Persia, born make happen Tehran. Perform represented Persia at interpretation UN expend 1957 nominate 1971. No problem worked sureness problems doomed poverty esoteric production processes of insolvency by say publicly market restraint.
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