A Study of Social Intelligence and its components in primary school Farsi textbooks

Edward Thorndike has shown that human beings need a set of skills based on social intelligence in order to be successful and to create good social relationships. Children's minds are ready to gain this intelligence; Persian textbooks are the best tools to convey and reinforce these skills because of the impact that language has. In this study, the contents of six Persian reading text books of primary school are analyzed based on components of social intelligence. The results indicate that despite all theoretical rigor in the selection of these texts, prominent components of social intelligence are not remarkable and those present are not accompanied with social intelligence skills. Eighty components can be seen in 233 short stories under study.