Identity Foundations of Policy Making in Higher Education in Iran; Practical Fields and Theory of Strengthening National Solidarity

The implementation of programs related to social policy in Iran's higher education system has caused problems on contingent foundations of identity politics, i.e. the possibility of the subject inside yourself and the reproduction of others under the social policy of cohesion, and in this way, social policy and its consequent advantages, including strengthening national solidarity have faced a problem. The most significant aspect of these programs is Indigenous Selection on Education (ISE), and its implementation has turned the relationship between the mentioned plan (ISE), social cohesion and national solidarity into a question. This research proposes the assumption that (ISE) by producing social totalities and through the creation of correlation between trade unions, cultural and social issues; it caused the subject to decontextualize and has faced difficulty in the possibility of self-production and reproduction of others. This research, relying on the importance of identity politics and the role of actors' subjectivity in the reconformation of social identity and the role of subjects in promoting national identity and solidarity, and by examining the diverse speeches of Iranian higher education policymakers during the last two decades, this hypothesis has been conformed in a qualitative method using phenomenological concepts