The Institute for Research on History of Children’s Literature in Iran (IRHCLI)is a non -governmental and non-profit organization founded in 2000 by enthusiastic researchers in the field of children’s literature. Since then, the institute has engaged in valuable national and international activities.
The office is located in Tehran and is staffed by regular employees as well as volunteers.
The IRHCLI 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
- Lay the groundwork for and expand historical research on the culture and literature of Iranian children
- Promote and develop childhood studied at the national level
- Collect, restore and make use of valuable historical information on the 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 the history of children’s literature
- Establish cultural links between the community of children’s literature researchers in Iran and their international counterparts
- Found the Iranian national museum of children’s culture and literature
- Design, implement and expand information technology projects in children’s culture and literature
- Support and publish fundamental and practical research on children’s culture
Our Activities
The first item on the agenda for the IRHCLI was to conduct extensive research on Iran’s history of children’s literature. The outcome of the research was a collection of ten volumes of “The History of Children’s Literature in Iran;” of which seven volumes have been already published. This major and valuable work led to many other activities at the Institute including establishing a research library; creating a data bank on children’s culture and literature; collecting thousands of bibliographies on books for children and young adults; assembling 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 and Literature.
While the above projects are ongoing, new activities have been recently added to our 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. In addition to publishing educational books the Institute has launched websites including “Ketabak” to promote reading and “Hod Hod", the Cultural Communication Portal for Children and Adolescents.
