Critical Survey of Curriculum Elements in theProgressive and Conservative Citizenship Educational Approaches

The purpose of the present study was to determine the values of curriculum elements in citizenship educational approaches. The current research was categorized in field the of theoretical methods in which a descriptive- interpretive approach was utilized. One of the most important results in this study revealed two main view points in citizenship education. Each of them have some basic reasoning for curriculum elements they are progressive and conservative approaches. In this article we analyzed the elements such as goals, content, teaching methods and evaluation procedures. According to our findings, it is suggested that from progressive approach be used in Iranian citizenship education curriculum formulation in most of the time.