Social Studies

The purpose of this study was to compare the desirable and existing framework of social responsibility training in the social studies curriculum of elementary school in Iran. Regarding this issue, in this research, the data have been gathered from expert opinions, related subject books, articles, and such cases. Therefore, the present research method is applied in a mixed approach ( Qualitative - quantitative). Also, the research method was descriptive-survey. The statistical population in the qualitative part included books from 4th, 5th and 6th grade (review of documents) and 20th course planning experts selected by purposeful sampling. In the quantitative part, the statistical population included all faculty members of the educational sciences and science units of Azad Shahr Azad University and Farhangian University of Gorgan, 40 people (women and men) who were selected by available sampling method. Data were collected by a researcher-made questionnaire, a collection of information and a checklist of researcher-made questionnaires: a checklist for the contents of textbooks on social studies in the elementary school of Iran, a content analysis syllabus, syllabus syllabus curriculum, social studies, elementary studies and a checklist for analyzing the content of books A guide to teaching. The faculty and content validity of the tool was approved and approved by experts and experts. The reliability of the tools was calculated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient test, which was verified statistically. In order to analyze the obtained data in different stages of the research, the descriptive statistics and the percentage and also inferential statistics of t-test were used. The results of the research indicated that desirable social responsibilities were considered for inclusion in the social studies curriculum of the elementary period of Iran (social accountability, religious accountability, economic accountability, cultural responsibility, political accountability, environmental responsibility, occupational accountability). Research findings also showed that attention to all types of social responsibilities and dimensions of primary education was not the same, but mainly focused on the cultural and religious responsibilities of the subject and the cognitive dimension of social responsibility training. Also, the least attention is paid to environmental and economic responsibilities, and the functional dimension of the education of socialism has not been overlooked either.

Purpose: Text books play an important role in improving the moral status of students, and in the meantime, the amount of attention the text books to moral skills needs to be investigated. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigating the amount of attention to the moral competencies of the national curriculum of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the social studies text books of the first secondary school. Methodology: This study in terms of implementation method was descriptive which in it was used the method of analyzing text books. The research population was the social studies text books of the first secondary school (7th, 8th and 9th) in the 2021-2022 academic years and all three of them were selected as a sample using the census sampling method. The research tool was taking notes of moral competencies of the curriculum in the mentioned books, which whose face validity was confirmed by curriculum experts and specialists, and whose reliability by test-retest method was calculated 0.86. The data as a content analysis were analyzed with using frequency and percentage frequency method of moral competencies of the national curriculum of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the social studies text books of the first secondary school. Findings: The findings showed that in the social studies text books of the first secondary school (7th, 8th and 9th) according to the national curriculum of the Islamic Republic of Iran were identified number of 139 competencies in the three axes of orientation and desire (62 cases), action and behavior (47 cases) and cognition and knowledge (30 cases) that the share of text books for the seventh, eighth and ninth grades was 58, 39 and 42 cases, respectively. Also, among the 19 moral competencies emphasized in the national curriculum of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the text books of the 7th, 8th, and 9th grades covered only 10, 10, and 12 cases of the competencies, respectively. Conclusion: According to the results of this study, it is necessary to create and promote moral competencies in the social studies text books of the first secondary school based on the national curriculum of the Islamic Republic of Iran.