Tahqiqāt-e Tārikh-e Ejtemā’I (Social History Studies), VOL:8, NO:1, Spring & Summer 2018 Projects Linking the Formal Education System with Rural Communities during Pahlavi era * Hossein Imani Jajarmi Ebrahim Khodaee** abstract Iran's modern education has been state-centered and centralist, with negligible links to local community. The high barrier between the school and community can be found in components such as formal language in classes, curriculum, educational contents, dressing up, table and bench placement, educational calendar, attendance arrangements, and other common behaviors and values. This remarkable distance, and the negligible relation between the educational system and society led to significant segments of the Iranian population living outside cities for many * Associated professor, Development Studies Department, Social Sciences Faculty, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran, Imanijajarmi@ut.ac.ir . **PHD student in Social Development Studies, Social Sciences Faculty, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran, Ebrahimkhodaee58@gmail.com . Received: 17/05/2018 Accepted:24/07/2018 Copyright © 2010, IHCS (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies). This is an Open Access article. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA