The Content Analysis of the School Textbooks from the Viewpoint of the Aesthetic Dimensions with an Emphasis on the Qur’anic Beauties

the present study aims at analyzing the content of school textbooks from the viewpoint of aesthetic dimensions and parameters with an emphasis on the Qur’anic beauties.

the present study is of practical type with a quantitative approach. Its method for gathering and analysis of data is of content analysis type. The statistical society of the study was the content of the textbook of the ‘Heavenly Gifts’ in primary schools in 1399-1400 SH school year. The statistical sample of the study consisted of the textbooks entitled the ‘Heavenly Gifts’ in the primary school. The tool for gathering data was the researcher-made checklist for the parameters of aestheticism. For analyzing data, we used descriptive statistics and Shanon’s entropy.

the findings showed that in the group of material beauties, 17 cases were for beauty of nature, 14 cases for beauty of animals, 6 cases for beauty of the sky, and 2 cases for the beauty of human and human artifacts. In the group of spiritual beauties, 38 cases were for beauty of the faith, 17 cases for beauty of knowledge, 11 cases for beauty of forgiveness and forbearance, 10 cases for beauty of one’s intention, 4 cases for beauty of patience and endurance, and no case for beauty of wisdom. The results of Shanon’s entropy showed that weighting coefficient (Wj) was 271for human’s beauty, 142 for beauty of the sky, 189 for animals’ beauty, 125 for nature’s beauty, zero for beauty of colors, and 271 for beauty of humans’ artifacts. Similarly, the Wj was 331 for patience and endurance, zero for beauty of wisdom, 182 for beauty of knowledge, 294 for beauty of intention, 0.074 for beauty of forgiveness and forbearance, and 115 for beauty of the faith. Besides, the highest use of rhetorical beauty in the Qur’an was for question with 26 cases of frequency.

we can conclude that in the textbooks entitled the ‘Heavenly Gifts’ in primary schools, not all dimensions of material, spiritual, and rhetorical beauties have been paid attention to equally.