Role of Youth Poetry in Pedagogy & Teaching Morals; Study of Irfan Nazari Aahari’s Poetry as a Model

Conference on Cultural Diversity, the Basis of National Integration, College of Arts/Wasit University 2022

Abstract

Literature has long been one of the main and most important tools for transferring social and cultural issues to any country. It also playing a role in forming the identities of individuals in society. In this connection, the Poetess Irfan Nazar Aahari wrote profoundly on the importance of the children's and adolescents' literature, their tasks, needs, challenges and threats.  Because this special issue is significant, this current study is seeking these goals in an analytical and descriptive way by applying a deductive approach in order to explore any issues of morals, nurture, and education of children as indicated in the contexts of Irfan Nazar Aahari's works.

The results showed that the advanced countries have basically recognized and invested, over the past decades, the importance of the children's and adolescents' literature, since human development can only be achieved through conscious education of children and adolescents.  In Iran also, many efforts were exerted on educating of children and adolescents through literature.  The success or failure of efforts is a subject of study by experts.  The whole world is rapidly and stupendously changing and being changed.  Therefore, we notice the change in the children’s and adolescents’ demands, expectations, and needs, as compared to those of past decades, let alone past centuries. It is natural that literature changes as well, as part of those needs can be met by literature.