Investigating the Status of Environmental Ethics in Junior High School Textbooks

The aim of this study is to study the junior high school textbooks in term of concern about dimensions of environmental ethics. The research method is descriptive of type of content analysis. The statistical population of this study is all junior high school books that published in 2019. Three book titles, "Social Studies," "Gifts of the Sky," " and " Empirical science," (9 volumes) were intentionally collected in the sample. A researcher-made content analysis inventory which was compiled by expert judgments and examined by descriptive indices in analytical process of Entropy Shannon, was used to gathering data .The result showed that in these books, components of the" recognition of nature as a divine creature and its proper use “with importance coefficient of 0.139, "Avoiding Environmental Pollution" with importance coefficient of 0.138, "tree planting and conservation of green space" with importance coefficient of 0.128, respectively were the most important dimensions and " biological diversity " with importance coefficient of 0.096, " The Perspective of Islam on Environment" with importance coefficient of 0.095, "Responsibility to Wildlife" with importance coefficient of 0.07, respectively were the least important dimensions. Hygiene and health" with importance coefficient of. There is no reference to "Animal Rights Observance “in none of the books.