چكيده به لاتين
Neoliberalism as a dominant ideology of our era, has influenced all aspects of our life, especially education. Neoliberalism pointed its gun to the educational institutions in order to vanish morality and cultural part of education and replace needs and interests of new generation with market's interests. In the era of neoliberalism, schools have changed their ultimate goals and just generate human capital who are prepared to fulfill neoliberal's demands. Despite a large body of research on neoliberalism and its effect on education in the world, just one study has been don on neoliberalism and its effect on education, in Iran. It appears that there has been no research exploring Iranian EFL teacher's awareness about neoliberalist ideologies in English textbooks and if such awareness was granted to them in teacher educational program. It also investigated EFL teacher's strategy to challenge neoliberalism within the classroom as well as their practice for enhancing English learner’s political consciousness. Fifteen EFL teachers participated in this qualitative study. The results showed that, just few EFL teachers were well informed about this concept and most of them were not acquainted with neoliberalism its manifestations in materials they were teaching. It also revealed that no information is given to teachers about neoliberalism, through teacher educational program. Moreover, it clarified that teachers who are not familiar with this concept, teach material as they are imposed and dictated, and few informed teachers by the aid of localized examples, try to resist against penetrations of neoliberalist ideologies. Finally, it indicated that almost all the teachers tried not to speak about political issues related to educational policy in the class, so as not to lose their job. This study recommends teacher educational programs, raise teacher's awareness about this concept and training them to develop their critical thinking skills to contribute to a democratic education.
