Content Analysis of Primary School Textbooks from the Perspective of Environmental Ethics in the Academic Year 2014-2015 in Iran

The current research was performed with the aim of analyzing the content of curricula Persian, Science and Heavenly Gifts of first period elementary based on environmental ethics. They include cleanness and environmental protection, cleanness and protection of human-made environment (urban), how to use energy resources, and protection of plants and animals. Thus, in this research Persian, Science and Heavenly Gifts textbooks of first period elementary were analyzed as most important educational resource to determine the extent to which moved in line with environmental ethics. Shannon entropy was used in research content analysis. Analysis unit was Persian and Science of first, second and third grades and Heavenly Gifts of second and third grades of first period elementary, which they include a total of 695 pages of Persian book, 318 pages of Science book, and 205 pages of Heavenly Gifts of first period elementary. The statistical society was Persian, Science and Heavenly Gifts textbooks of first period elementary in 2015 academic year. The results indicated that the most attention was paid in all Persian textbooks of first, second and third grades of first period elementary to environmental ethics namely cleanness and protection of human-made environment (urban) (258%) and protection of plants and animals (258%), in Science textbooks of first, second and third grades of first period elementary protection of plants and animals (266%), and in Heavenly textbooks of first, second and third grades of first period elementary to cleanness and environmental protection (0.24).