Content analysis of the fourth elementary social studies teaching textbook based on Islamic Environmental Ethics

Morality has many tendencies and every part of human life demands do's and don'ts. One of the ethics that has been emphasized is environmental ethics. Environmental ethics is one of the branches of applied philosophy that deals with values, beliefs and tendencies and examines emerging or unresolved ethical issues in the field of environment. In Islam, environmental ethics and environmental protection have been emphasized. The aim of the present study was to investigate the fourth grade elementary social studies textbook in terms of the amount of attention paid to the components of Islamic environmental ethics and in order to improve the content of the book. The research method is descriptive and content analysis. The statistical population includes the fourth grade elementary school social studies textbook for the 97-98 academic year, which has not been sampled due to the nature of the subject and the entire statistical population has been studied. The unit of analysis is the image and the sentence in the context unit of the paragraph. The tool used in this research is a categorical table that has been extracted based on the scale of religiosity related to the study of individual theology and includes 5 components of Islamic environmental ethics. The findings of this study showed that the total concepts related to Islamic environmental ethics in this book were 106 units, in the text dimension, the frequency of Islamic environmental ethics components was 75 and in the image dimension was 31. In this book, the components of "optimal use of resources" 65 times, "expansion of renewable natural resources" 20 times, the component of "observance of environmental health" 11 times, "avoidance of environmental damage" 9 times, respectively. The "emphasis on avoiding extravagance" component is not mentioned.