ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to criticize the New Public Management (NPM) in the higher education of Iran with a moral lens. Qualitative content analysis was used for this purpose and the fourth to sixth National Development Plans as well as the Comprehensive Scientific Map of Iran were investigated. The model of NPM that is promoted in the Iranian higher education mostly emphasizes corporatization and the diversification of financial resources, while less attention has been paid to the other dimensions, such as customer-orientation and accountability. The findings revealed that the NPM in Iranian higher education (a kind of pseudo-neoliberalism) is not only incompatible with the Islamic moral goals, but there are also significant contradictions. NPM is based on the commodification of knowledge and the homo economicus, while in Islam, emphasis is on the value of knowledge too, and the truth-seeking is the important mission of knowledge.

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伊朗高等教育中的新公共管理（NPM）；道德分析

摘要本文旨在用道德的眼光批评伊朗的高等教育中的新公共管理（NPM）。为此使用了定性内容分析，并调查了第四至第六个国家发展计划以及伊朗的综合科学地图。伊朗高等教育中提倡的NPM模式主要强调公司化和财政资源的多样化，而对其他方面（如客户导向和问责制）的关注则较少。调查结果表明，伊朗高等教育中的NPM（一种伪自由主义）不仅与伊斯兰的道德目标不符，而且还存在着重大矛盾。NPM基于知识的商品化和经济节约，而在伊斯兰教中，