Investigating the Level of Social and Moral Citizenship Skills of Elementary School Students

The social, political, cultural and economic issues of the present age have turned the issue of teaching social skills of citizenship into one of the most important areas of decision and action in the education system. Educating responsible and informed citizens is one of the most fundamental missions of educational systems in different countries. The aim of this study was to investigate the level of elementary school students' social and moral skills of citizenship and to compare the views of female teachers and students.

This research is applied in terms of purpose, and in terms of the nature and method of data collection, it is a descriptive survey research method. The target population is elementary school students in Tehran's second district among which the sample size was calculated as 90 female teachers and 350 students through Krejcie & Morgan table and selected through cluster sampling method. The data collection tool in this study was a researcher-made questionnaire whose content validity was confirmed by professors and experts in the field of education, and the Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to obtain reliability as of 0.841.

Findings indicated that students had above-average level in the components of active participation, empathy, and responsibility and below average level in the components of interpersonal relationships, decision-making power and critical thinking.

There is a significant difference between the attitudes of students and teachers regarding the extent to which students enjoy the components of citizenship.