Content Analysis of the Social Studies Book of Elementary Schools Based on Economic Education

The purpose of this study is the content analysis of the social studies book of elementary school based on the emphasis on economic education. The research method is descriptive and thematic content analysis. The research population includes all social studies books in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth grade of the elementary school that all content of them was study in a census method. The unit of analysis is the sentence, image and theme. Data collect and analysis by check list of economic education that validity was confirmed by experts and its reliability was calculated 0.89 based on the Scott's coefficient. Descriptive statistics and thematic analyzes were used to analyze the data. The results generally indicate that there were 1080 cases in relation to economic education in the content of the book of social studies of four-grades that 84/81(916 cases) were in the knowledge dimension, 11/01(119 cases) were related to the attitude and 4/16(45 cases) were related to the functional dimension.The most attention to economic education was in the sixth grade book and the lowest it was in fourth grade.The findings also showed that in the third grade book, 82.22 of the material was in the knowledge dimension, 13.33 of it related to the attitude and 4/44 were related to the functional dimension;  In the fourth book, 84.72 of the material related to the knowledge dimension, 14.58 of it related to the attitude and 0/69 were related to the functional dimension; In the fifth book 86.14 of the material related to the knowledge dimension, 12.50 of it related to the attitude and 1/35 were related to the functional dimension; and In the sixth book, 85.30 of the material related to the knowledge dimension,7.46 of it related to the attitude and 7/22 were related to the functional dimension.