Analysis of the Content of Elementary School Social Studies Books from the Perspective of the Three Virtues of Islamic Ethics

This research has analyzed the content of elementary school social studies books from the perspective of the three virtues of Islamic ethics. For this purpose, the method of content analysis has been used. The statistical population of the research included the content of all the social studies textbooks of the elementary school in the academic year of 2002-03, including the third to sixth grades, which was omitted from sampling and the entire population was investigated. The research tool includes a content analysis list of the three virtues of Islamic ethics, including courage, honesty, and benevolence, which is based on Islamic teachings and the definitions and opinions of Muslim thinkers about moral virtues, and its validity is through content validity and its reliability is through Scott's method. It was calculated with 91.42%. Descriptive statistics and Shannon's entropy method were used for data analysis. In this research, the component of moral courage among the sub-components of courage with an information load of 0.99 and an importance coefficient of 0.46 received the most attention, and the component of verbal honesty among the sub-components of honesty with an information load of 0.03 and an importance coefficient of 0.2 received the least amount of attention. have dedicated themselves. Also, the results showed that the charity component among the sub-components of benevolence has zero frequency in all social studies books in all elementary grades. Therefore, it can be concluded that the three virtues of Islamic ethics have not been paid attention to in a balanced way. It is recommended to review the design and organization of elementary school social studies textbooks as a strategic goal and implement supplementary educational programs as a short-term goal to fill existing gaps.