Qualitative content analysis of sky Gifts textbooks from the Amr-Bil-Ma ruf and Nahi-Anil-Munkar perspective

The purpose of this study was to examine the Amr-Bil-Ma’ruf and Nahi-Anil-Munkar instruction in sky gifts textbooks and comparing its instruction throughout elementary school level. It was a mixed methods research with exploratory design which was done on the2nd and 6th grades sky gifts textbooks as the research sample. The first phase of the study was done through qualitative content analysis and inductive method. The result of such analysis was identifying and extracting the eight components related to the Amr-Bil-Ma’ruf and Nahi-Anil-Munkar instruction in the above-mentioned textbooks. Indeed¡ the results obtained from the first phase were used as the criteria for quantitative measurements of the second phase of this study. Here¡ it was revealed that the first and second components were of high frequency and much of textual messages related to the Amr-Bil-Ma’ruf and Nahi-Anil-Munkar instruction were dedicated to them. In general¡ despite the fact that in no section of the two textbooks there has been no direct and clear discussion of the Amr-Bil-Ma’ruf and Nahi-Anil-Munkar¡ however¡ it has been instructed in accordance with the students’ cognitive development¡ implicitly.