A Study on Concentration on the Prophet's and Infallible's Tradition in the Newly Authored Persian Language Textbooks (i.e. " Read &Write") in the School Year 1387-1388 and Their Comparison with the Persian Language Textbooks of the School Year 1379-1380 at the Elementary Stage

The objective of this study was to discuss the level and quality of concentration on the tradition of the prophets and Infallibles in the newly authored Persian language textbooks of the elementary stage in the school year 1387-1388 and their comparison with the Persian language textbooks of the same stage published in the 1379-1380 school year in order to reveal to what extent the newly authored books make effort to acquaint the students with different aspects of the prophets’ and Infallibles’ lives. The method adopted in this study was descriptive content analysis. The sample consisted of Persian language textbooks of the elementary stage in the 1379-1380 school year and the newly authored Persian language textbooks of the same stage in the 1387-1388 school year. Findings demonstrated that the newly authored books have designated only 5. 4% of their entire volume to these subjects. This content includes 33 cases of life account، 35 cases of behavior account and 4 cases of sayings (the hadith) quoted from the Infallibles. On the other hand، the 79-80 textbooks included 25 life accounts، 70 cases of behavior accounts and 9 cases of hadith which overall، formed 9. 7% of the total volume of the textbooks. Content analysis of the illustrations and questions posed in these books revealed that questions have been depthless، while the illustrations in the 87-88 textbooks had significantly improved compared with their 79-80 predecessors. The abundance ratio of pages and references to the prophets and the Infallibles had been higher in scope for the 79-80 textbooks، except for the illustrations.