The Study of Characteristics of the Curriculum Elements in Elementary Tribes schools

This study aimed to describe the characteristics of curriculum elements in Tribes schools from the perspective of elementary teachers. The present study was conducted in the academic year of 2018-2019 with guided qualitative content analysis, with purposeful sampling and in-depth semi-structured interview with 15 teachers of Tribes schools. The analysis of the interviews was done manually and simultaneously with data collection. The reliability of the findings was done by immersion and repeated study and review and revise by participants and experts. Based on the elements of the proposed curriculum Maleki (2015), seven elements in this study were studied. Characteristics of Tribes curriculum elements with main categories include goal (goal of study: literacy only at elementary level), content (prescribed content by Centralized education system, challenges for Tribes students and teachers), instructional materials (shortage of instructional facilities and requirements), Teaching-learning strategies (the challenges of teaching-learning strategies; the multifaceted role of teacher), time (truancy and wasting time), space (lack of interaction between home and school; School physical space issues, evaluation (barriers to descriptive-qualitative evaluation) were extracted from the data. The results showed that this was not the case despite the emphasis on Legal documents and education statutes to adapt curricula to the context of Tribes life, so actions are needed from practitioners.