Designing A Curriculum Framework for Preschool Teacher Education in the Education System of Islamic Republic of Iran

During the last few years, there have been some changes in the educational system and consequently in the textbooks and teaching materials as well. And these changes are done to involve students more in the teaching and learning process. One of the textbooks being subjected to an enormous change is Arabic textbooks. The present paper is trying to explore the amount of activeness of Arabic textbook in the First grade in guidance school, in the previous system, and the one in the seventh grade in the present system, comparatively. Consequently, this paper, using content analysis technique based on William Romey’s method, analyses these books from the active and inactive perspective. The statistical population for Arabic textbook in First grade in guidance school is 2011-2012 school year and for Arabic textbook in the Seventh grade is 2014-2015 school year. Information collecting tool, is the analysis inventory based on William Romy’s method. The results conveys that the content of Seventh grade Arabic textbook consisting the text, questions and the images, compared to the content of Arabic textbook in first grade in guidance school, are more active, and the changes done to the content of Arabic textbook were completely positive and efficient.