Identification of social responsibility indicators within the Iranian high school curriculum

Abstract

To identify social responsibility indicators within the Iranian high school curriculum, the contents of a sample of ten text books used in the junior year were analyzed. The results show that 7 types, of social responsibility,each with three cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions, are addressed which included socio-religious, cultural, political, economic, civic, environmental, and organizational responsibilities and covered 4.8% of the total content. The Social Studies textbook had the most number of indicators (relative frequency of 1%) and the least relative frequency was in Psychology textbook with 0.1%.

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