a content analysis of social Science Textbooks of 4th, 5th, 6th grades within the items of multicultural education

The Aim of This study was to analysis the content of social science textbooks of 4th, 5th, 6th grades on items of multicultural education in the Field of education. The study population comprised of social science textbooks of 4th, 5th, 6th grades so the sample is equal to the population. In this research a mixed method has been used and both qualitative and quantitative content analyses have been applied. In qualitative content analysis identify the theoretical aspects of multicultural education from gender, disability, ethnicity, culture, social justice and peace were examined. In quantitative content analysis five mainthemes, namely gender, ethnicity, disability, universal values and culture and its sub-themes in these textbooks were reviewed and related themes in social science textbooks were identified. This study satisfies the reliability conditions of Hall and Houten. This research had multiple results.One of the results of the analysis showed that people with disabilities and people from different ethnicity have been represented insufficiently in Social Science textbooks. And very little attention to multicultural values are reported.