The attention to the issue of nation's right in the contents of Iranian social studies school textbooks

This study examines the amount of attention to nation's right in the content of Iranian school textbooks. The right of the nation is a part of the human right recognized by the government in the constitution law. Therefore, it is expected that this issue is considered in formal school education. Present research is conducted as a survey in two stages. The first stage includes the study of literature and basic principal of nation's right, and review the Iranian constitution law to deduce and extract the basic components of nation's right. The second phase includes analysis of curriculum content .In this stage the amount of content consistent with the fundamental components of nation's right were identified. Statistical population includes all social studies and sociology textbooks in formal school education that has been prepared by the Ministry of Education. Descriptive and inferential methods are used to analyze the results. This study shows the current textbooks have not considered the nation's right as acceptable. Although some components, such as people's rights to participate in determining the future have been considered, but some basic individual and social rights such as freedom of thought are not considered adequately.