Studying the place of cultural components in the Social Sciences Curriculum for the first grade of high school in Iran.

Abstract

The research work is based on the method of qualitative content analysis, including the national education document, and approvals of the Council of the Cultural Revolution, curriculum experts and education teachers. The data collection was by a semi-structured interview and a questionnaire by researchers. The results of this research showed that the level of attention to the desirable cultural cognitive goals in the social sciences curriculum for the eighth and ninth grades of secondary school was favorable, but not for the seventh grade. The methods of evaluation of the curriculum for the three grades were the functional evaluation, the qualitative evaluation based on the observation, the evaluation of individual or group projects and the verbal evaluation.