Content Analysis of Social Studies Books in the Second Elementary Course of Iran from the Perspective of Attention to the Characteristics of a Global Citizen

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1 PhD student in Educational Management, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

2 Bachelor of Educational Sciences, Farhangian University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran

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The purpose of this study was to review the social studies books of the second elementary Course in terms of attention to the components of global citizenship. The research method is descriptive and content analysis is quantitative. The unit of analysis in this research is the sentences and pictures of textbooks. The statistical population is the social studies books of the second elementary Course of the 1399-1400 academic year and the statistical sample is the same society. The data collection tool was the components of Oxfam Global Citizen, which are classified into three areas: cognitive, skill and attitude, which is acceptable with the approval of the relevant professor. To calculate the reliability, the counts were performed by the researchers independently and using the Holsti coefficient, the obtained reliability coefficient is 0.82. The results of data analysis show that among the second grade elementary school, the fifth grade with 59.44% and the fourth grade with 16.93%, respectively, have the highest and lowest amount of attention to the components of global citizenship. Among the books reviewed, the most attention has been paid to the cognitive component with 52.53% and to the attitudinal component with 9.21%.

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