Content analysis of elementary school social studies books based on the degree of attention to ethical components

 Ethics is one of the fundamental issues in human education and identifying moral concepts is of great importance. One of the most important organizations that can take important steps for the development of ethics is the education organization, which should institutionalize ethics in students. Among these, the textbook is very important; because it is the most important learning tool and other educational media revolve around the textbook. As a result, the present study has been conducted with the aim of evaluating and analyzing the content of elementary school social studies books in order to determine the extent to which ethical components have been addressed. The statistical population includes the content of elementary school study books that have been studied by deductive qualitative method. The results show that in the studied textbooks, social ethics has the highest degree and economic ethics has the lowest degree of attention. And the authors of textbooks should pay more attention to the education and development of the educational system based on the mentioned moral teachings.