Document Type : Research Article (Quantitative)

Authors

1 PhD student, Department of Psychology, Allameh Tabatabai University (RA), Tehran, Iran.

2 M.A, Department of Psychology, Allameh Tabatabai University (RA), Tehran, Iran.

3 M.A, student, Counseling Department, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

10.22034/ijes.2020.43766

Abstract

Purpose The aim of this study was to identify moral concepts in students in the fifth and sixth grade textbooks of elementary school.
Methodology: Content analysis was used in two steps to achieve the objectives of the research. In the first step, qualitatively, the method of analyzing conventional or inductive content was used to identify categories. In the second step, after accessing the categories, the categories were reviewed quantitatively, systematically and objectively. The statistical population of this study, all Persian books (reading), social studies, gifts of heaven and experimental sciences in the academic year 1398-1399, fifth and sixth grades of elementary school, which included 8 volumes of books, sampling in this research was done theoretically and the criterion of classification, existence Moral content was considered in the structure of textbook lessons.
Findings: Unfortunately, the alignment of ethical concepts in textbooks has not been addressed and of the 12 ethical concepts, only "thinking", "good behavior", "cooperation" has been considered.
Conclusion: Other concepts are inefficient in terms of the number of repetitions and variations in alignment at different bases.

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