Examining the degree of attention to components of Intergenerational Education in elementary school social studies books

The intergenerational position expresses the social position of one generation, which makes it different from the people of another generation. In other words, historical experiences, inventions, tremendous developments and issues of this kind that occur in the life of a generation form a distinctive mentality within that generation, which is not necessarily compatible with that of the generations before and after it. The goal of the present study is to explain the intergenerational education in Iranian elementary curriculum. The method of this research is descriptive and content analysis type. The researcher has used the content analysis method based on attention to content indicators. The statistical population of this research included all elementary education textbooks. The sample size was selected using the purposeful sampling method of social studies books (third, fourth, fifth and sixth grades). The Shannon entropy was utilized to analyze the data. The findings indicated that among the ten indices used to analyze the content of the social studies book, the highest importance coefficient (0.1799) and informational load (1.327) were attributed to family values as the first priority, while social values received the second priority with an importance coefficient of 0.17069 and an informational load of 1.259. Economic values, artistic values, values of internationalization, national values, scientific values, religious values, political valuesand individual values were ranked from third to tenth positions respectively.