Analyzing the Status of the Indicators of Global Education in the Contents of the Textbooks of the 6th Grade of Iranian Primary School

The research at hand aims at scrutinizing the position of the indicators of international education (growth and expansion, environment, culture, citizenship, hygiene and health, peace, equality and justice, information technology) in the contents of the textbooks of the 6th grade of Iran›s primary schools. The method used is descriptive based on content analysis and approach is an applied one. With regards to the topic of the research and the limitations of the statistical society, sampling was done without. Thus, the statistical society is all the books publish in the year 2013 for the 6th grade of the primary schools of Iran by the Minisrty of Education. The results of the research which have been examined by using the desciptive data are as follows: 1- On aggragate, such indicators have been used 771 times; this frequency was 32, 29, 119,53, 50, 31 and 457 in Let›s Read Persian, Ethereal Gifts, Social Teachings, Experimental Sciences, Mathematics, Reflection and Research, Work and Technology textbooks respectively. 2- Among the aforecited indicators the most emphasis was given to ‹information technology› (468 times) while the least was given to ‹peace, amity, equality and justice› (29 times).