A content analysis of high school book: “the Religion and Life” with an emphasis on the National Curriculum

This study aims to assess and analyze the adjustment of indicators over educational textbooks during the high school: Religion and Life 2 and 3. The study is a descriptive one based on a qualitative research with an applied research approach.
All the books of Religion and Life, taught during high school, are considered as the study population in the academic year of 2015-2016 and the Religion and Life 2 and 3 are taken as examples. The instrument applied in this study is prepared by the documents that used as textbooks during high school years. The content analysis method is realized the better way of extracting information. The results showed that: 1- The books of “Religion and Life 2 and 3” are written based on three general themes: knowledge, attitudes and desires, and actions and behavior. 2- The total number of conceptual elements in Religion and Life 2 is 313 and in Religion and Life 3 is 243, which is the highest frequency components based on knowledge and the lowest frequency of the elements of Axis tendencies. Overall, the findings emphasize that the special interest of the authors between the pages of the books tries to increase people's understanding of the fundamental and subsidiary principles of religion but the matter of discussing tendencies has received little attention.