RT - Journal Article T1 - Content Analysis of High School Textbooks on Religion and Life with Respect to the Standards Set by the National Curriculum JF - qjoe YR - 2018 JO - qjoe VO - 34 IS - 3 UR - http://qjoe.ir/article-1-1229-en.html SP - 101 EP - 120 K1 - content analysis K1 - Religion & Life textbook K1 - educational indices K1 - national curriculum AB - The main aim of this research has been to help with the improvement of the quality of education through an improvement in textbooks used. Given the orientation of the post-revolutionary Iranian government and its centralized system of education, the 2nd and 3rd year high school textbooks on religion and life were selected to be content analysed in terms of their correspondence to the national curriculum. The instrument used was constructed based on the indices drawn from the national curriculum. Data analyses revealed that the 2nd and 3rd year high school textbooks on religion and life are written based on the general themes of cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions as indicated by the national curriculum. Conceptually, the two textbooks cover a total of 709 concepts of which 313 are covered in the 2nd year textbook and the remaining 396 in the 3rd year textbook. However, conceptual attention is mostly given to the cognitive dimension with the frequency of 425. The least attended dimension is the affective with a frequency of only 87. It can be concluded that the authors have favored the cognitive dimension at the expense of the other two. LA eng UL http://qjoe.ir/article-1-1229-en.html M3 ER -