Tales of the Elementary School Books, Let's Read Persian (With a Focus on Law Abiding)

Developed countries pay much attention to civic culture and educating citizens in this regard; its beneficial results in welfare, development, and progress of society have made developing countries understand its necessity thus to provide training and research. The aim of this paper is to determine how civic culture education and law abiding is presented in elementary school Let's Read Persian books (second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth grades) in 1393-1394 (2014-2015) in Iran. The results show that of the total of 72 stories and tales, only 17 cases contain the component of law abiding, mostly in the second and third grade books for students with less reading ability. The frequency of indices also suggests there is not a relative balance so that the indices of citizenship rights are 53% and adherence to the norms, values, and laws and regulations is 5.9%. In addition, 67% of the themes have negative values undermining law abiding. Thus they are incompatible with the goals of the educational system requiring modification in the contents of these books.