Presenting a Model of Elementary Schools Persian Curriculum Objectives Based on Critical Thinking

This research was carried out with the aim of providing a model of the objectives of the Persian curriculum of the elementary school based on critical thinking. The research is qualitative and a combination of content analysis and theoretical method. In order to collect research data, semi-structured interviews and document review were used. Due to the non-approval of the Persian curriculum guide, the Persian teacher's guide for the first to sixth grades and the non-final version of the Persian language and literature curriculum guide for 2019 along with the Persian language and literature curriculum guide for 2014 were reviewed and Interviews were conducted with 47 primary school teachers, Persian language and literature professors, and curriculum experts, and open and axial coding was used for data analysis. In the next step, by applying theoretical research and doing selective coding, the paradigm model of the Persian curriculum of the elementary school based on critical thinking was presented. According to the results obtained, among the objectives of the Persian curriculum of the elementary school, the development of social and communication skills, the coherence of thoughts and systematic thinking, and deep thinking and insight are based on the approach of critical thinking, among which the goal of deep thinking and insight is most related to The components of critical thinking.