The Study of Human Rights in Social Studies Textbooks in middle school

The aim of this study was to study of consideration rate to human rights in social studies textbooks of middle school in Iran. In this research descriptive method for determining the components of human rights and content analyzing method to study and analyze of textbooks of social studies in middle school was used. The sampling frame of research in content analyzing section was social studies textbooks in middle school. Collecting tools of information were, textbook content analyzing lists that according to proposal gathered and edited after studying theoretical bases and legal beds, had been qualified by curriculum experts and socialists. The analyzing unit was the printed sentences in the body of textbooks. The most important findings of this research including to human rights totally attention 22/46% to first in middle school, 32/32% to second grade in middle school, 52/08% to third grade in middle school, 19/23% to cognitive dimension, 7/34% to sentimental dimension and 10/65% to functional dimension, that the maximum attention related to cognitive dimension was about the authors of human rights.