Status of Citizenship Education and Rights in Social Study Curriculum of Elementary School

Educating responsible and conscious is one of the most important and basic objectives of any education systems in countries. Every country has task to preparing citizens entering to social, economic, political and cultural life. This study is investigating importance rate of citizenship education components including knowledge, attitude and skill in social study books of 3, 4, 5 and 6 grades of elementary school. We apply Shannon’s entropy method in this research that include three phase. The whole sample (text, picture and activity) was studied. Results indicated that attention to component of citizenship skill with 183 frequencies is more than other components. Citizenship attitude is the next with 170 frequencies and citizenship knowledge is the last with 127 frequencies. Choice Ability and decision making have more important among citizenship rights component.