Contently analyzing the" Life Skills" textbook based on the principles of content selection and providing correct strategies: from the Curriculum planning expert's view points

The present study aims to contently analyze the «Life Skills» textbook of the 5th grade of primary schools، based on the principles of curriculum contents selection. It، also، provides corrective strategies expressed by the curriculum planning experts. The descriptive method is employed and the data have been gathered by means of a researcher-made questionnaire which includes 30 closed- answer questions and 3 opened-answer questions. The questioner along with the book has been given to the curriculum planning experts، who have been chosen based on the random access sampling method. What being shown from the findings is that curriculum planning experts believe that the principles of importance، validity، profitability، learning ability، students'' eagerness and attention to the structure of knowledge are highly considered in selecting the contents of the very book; while، principle of flexibility has، to some extent، been observed. Inductively analyzing the data by means of one-sample t-test indicates that curriculum planning experts believe that observing the principles of importance، validity، profitability، students'' eagerness and attention to the structure of knowledge and learning ability are statically meaningful; however، the same cannot be said for the principle of flexibility. once analyzing the opened-answer questions، curriculum planning experts came to these conclusion that: a) nine subjects should be added to the contents of the book، the most important of which is proper relationship. b) Three subjects should be omitted، mainly the subjects about sorrow، sadness and anger. C) Seven other subjects should be more emphasized on، among which problem solving has had the highest frequency.