Teachers’ understanding of the effects of curriculum on improving citizenship culture in elementary school students

Citizenship Education is one of the essential requirements in every educational system, so that it can be said that the main purpose of the education system is to educate a desirable citizen for every society. The aim of the current research is to study teachers’ understanding of the role of curriculum in improving the citizenship education of elementary school students. The nature of this research is practical in the type of descriptive-survey. The statistical population consists of elementary teachers working in the second grade elementary school of Birjand in the academic year 98-97. A sample of 202 people was selected and examined based on Krejcie and Morgan's tables. The sampling method was cluster-class. The data gathering tool was a researcher-made questionnaire whose content validity was confirmed by the faculty members and its reliability was calculated to be 0/806 by the Cronbach's alpha coefficient. One-sample t-test and analysis of variance was used to analyze the data. The results of the study showed that in the point of view of the teachers, the curriculum has been able to act above the average in improving the citizenship of elementary students (3) in their knowledge behaviors (3/15), cultural-national behaviors (3/63) and social behaviors (3/51) and electronics citizens (3/07). It is suggested that designers and curriculum designers pay more attention to this issue due to the difference between the average component of electronic citizen with the desired level and the necessity of educating the citizen in today's modern society.