The evaluation of global citizenship education lessons in primary school Curriculum and teachers' perspective regarding the attention of the textbooks’ content to the global citizenship

Abstract

This study was conducted to investigate the sixth grade teachers' perspective toward the global citizenship education. The statistical sample of study consists of the sixth grade books and teachers in Education of Marivan city and totally, there are 64 sixth grade teachers. Data collection was done by using content analysis (tables and checklist) for textbooks and a researcher-made questionnaire with 100 questions about the global citizenship which its validity and reliability were determined. After the implementation of questionnaire, the respondents’ answers were counted manually and then were analyzed by SPSS. The obtained statistical results by using the statistical methods of independent-T and Chi-square indicated that, in some components, teachers' perspectives and curricula were consistent and in some others, they were against each other.