Assessing the current and desirable status of the curriculum for education for sustainable development in primary school from the perspective of teachers and analyzing its content in textbooks

The aim of this study was to investigate the current and desirable status of the curriculum for primary school from the perspective of teachers and analyze its content in the sixth grade textbooks. The research design is a quantitative type and the research method is descriptive-survey; The statistical population included 250 primary school teachers in Babolsar. Based on Morgan's table, a sample of 148 people was selected by stratified proportional sampling. The instrument in this section is a researcher-made questionnaire that was used with a CVR of more than 0.56 and reliability with a Cronbach's alpha coefficient above 0.92. In the second part, the research method is content analysis. The statistical population of this section is the sixth grade textbooks in the academic year 1300-1499, which includes all books in this grade (Quran, heavenly gifts, social studies, writing, work and technology, thinking and research, Persian and science) with the exception of mathematics. The checklist instrument with CVR was 0.90 and its reliability with agreement coefficient of 0.77 was used. Shannon entropy method was used to analyze the data. Findings in the first part showed a little, the level of significance calculated between the two existing and desirable conditions is 0.001 (p <0.05); In the content analysis section, in the economic component, the index of "sustainable consumption", in the social component, the index of "health", in the cultural component, the index of "cultural heritage" and in the environmental component, the index of "energy" have received the most attention. The results showed that in the opinion of teachers, the current situation of the education curriculum for sustainable development is significantly less than the desired situation, and in order to reach the desired position, the elementary school curriculum should be reviewed.