Investigating the Persian textbooks of the secondary education with emphasis on caring thinking

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

jaber eftekhari ¹ , RezaAli Nowrozi ² , Hojjat Eftekhari ³

1 - Phd. Student in Philosophy of Education, Departmant of Education, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.
2 - Associate Professor, Educational Sciences Department, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Isfahan, Iran
3 - PhD in Curriculum Studies and Lecturer at Farhangian University, Shahid Rajaei Campus, Iran

Received: 2022-11-05 Accepted : 2023-01-18 Published : 2022-11-22

Keywords: Curriculum, Persian, caring thinking, Content Analysis, Secondary School,

Abstract :

The purpose of the current research was to investigate the Persian books of secondary education based on the components of caring thinking. The method of this descriptive research was content analysis and the Shannon entropy method was used to analyze the data. The analyzed sources were three volumes of Persian textbooks of the first secondary school in the academic year of 2021-2022 and the research tool was the content analysis checklist based on the components of caring thinking from Lipman's point of view, the validity of which was verified by five education experts. The findings of the research showed that in the Persian books of secondary school, the highest importance coefficient in terms of attention to the components of care thinking is related to the eighthgrade book (0.336) and the lowest importance coefficient is related to the ninth grade (0.329). Also, in Persian books of secondary school, the component of appreciative thinking has the highest information load (0.99) and the importance coefficient (0.20), and the component of affective thinking has the lowest information load (0.95) and the coefficient of importance (0.19) they have dedicated themselves. Therefore, according to the insignificant difference in the information load and the importance factor between the books and the components, it can be said that the content of these books has been balanced to some extent, and considering the important role of caring thinking in the life of students, it is suggested while revising the content of Persian books of secondary school, they should pay more attention to this issue.

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