Global citizen education in elementary curricula in Iran, book analysis and teacher's viewpoint

Abstract

The present research is an attempt to determine the elements of global citizen education in the contents of textbooks of fourth and fifth grade and also analysis of teachers' point of view of this grade about educating global citizen. Of course, the present research has sub-objectives too. The statistical population of this research includes books (Persian reading, Social education and experimental sciences) of fifth and sixth grade and all teachers of fifth and sixth grade in Marivan's educations that consists of a total of 132 people at two grades of 68 teachers for fifth grade and 64 teachers of sixth grade who were chosen in two considered associations i.e. textbooks and teachers of sixth and fifth grades of the whole society. In order to gather data from content analysis table and check list for textbooks and questionnaires were used including 100 questions about global citizens whose validity and reliability was determined. After conducting the questionnaire, the respondents' answers was counted manually and then was analyzed using SPSS. Using t-independent, Chi-square and Friedman, statistical results show that, in sixth grade more than fifth grade, and in social studies books more than other books and among three domains, the attitudinal domain were studied. And there is consistency in some elements between teachers' viewpoint and course content and there is difference and sometimes contrasts in others.