Examining the reflection of the structure of leadership and responsibility in the mirror of textbooks

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Curriculum Planning Department, Marand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marand, Iran.

2 PhD student in Curriculum Planning, Marand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marand, Iran.

10.22098/ael.2022.11997.1204

Abstract

Background and Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which the concepts of leadership and responsibility are reflected in primary school textbooks.
Research methodology: This study make use of a descriptive and content analysis type using "Shannon Entropy". The population includes all the books of the elementary school, the statistical sample of this research includes the books we read in the six grades of the elementary school in the year 2008-2019. The research tool was checklist and questionnaire. The unit of content analysis in this research is all the text of books, activities, pictures and questions directly or indirectly (their meaning) about each of the components of leadership and responsibility; is stated Then, the books to be read in the elementary school were studied deeply and purposefully, and the sentences containing the components and sub-components or having a concept similar to them were recorded. After collecting statistical samples, they were summarized, coded and categorized and finally processed. In this process, abundance distribution tables for each set of books and content units were counted and analyzed with Shannon's entropy method.
Findings: The results showed that in the read books, after interpreting the data based on the obtained importance coefficient; In the content of the textbooks, let's read the moral-cultural dimension with the importance coefficient (0.206) in the first place, social-political and environmental dimensions (0.201) in the second place and the legal dimension with the importance coefficient (0.195). ) has assigned the lowest priority among other dimensions of responsibility.
Conclusion: It can be concluded that the coefficient of importance of the dimensions of leadership and responsibility in textbooks are not the same.

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