Investigating the position Philosophy for Children Curriculum with the orientation of multicultural education in of Elementary Farsi Textbooks using Shannon entropy technique

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Ph.D in Curriculum Development, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran

2 Professor, University of Tabriz, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Department of Educational Sciences, Tabriz, IranSciences, Tabriz, Iran

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran

4 Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran

Abstract

The present study seeks to analyze the content Farsi books of elementary school in textbooks based on the components of the philosophy for children with the orientation of multicultural education. The data collection was performed by content analysis method based on researcher's content analysis list of philosophical thinking measures including three concepts (Exploratory, argumentative and interactive) and Components of multicultural education (including 15 concepts) and research validity are validated and confirmed by research experts and experts in educational sciences. The reliability is evaluated by CVR calculation of which shows 86%. The population consisted Farsi of elementary of Iran in 2022. using Shannon's entropy, the concept of acceptance of differences with the P4C approach with an importance factor of 32.35 has the highest amount of attention and the concept of religion with an importance factor of 29.41 ranks second. Also, the fifteen concepts examined in the textbooks based on the philosophy approach for children have been reflected in a scattered and unbalanced manner. Based on the findings of the research, the textbooks need to be revised, to pay more attention to the philosophy program for children with the orientation of multicultural education.

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