The Degree of Representing Philosophical Foundations in The National and Civic Educational Curriculum of the Upper Basic Stage in Jordan

The Degree of Representing Philosophical Foundations in The National and Civic Educational Curriculum of the Upper Basic Stage in Jordan

Zaid Al-Edwan, & Maher Al-Ziadat

z_aludwan@yahoo.com

Received : 14-05-2008 , Accepted : 22-12-2008

Language: Arabic

Abstract

This study aims at realizing the extent which national and civic education textbooks of the upper Basic Stage in Jordan are inclusive of the philosophical foundations of curriculum. Through using the descriptive pattern. The study is to identify a list of criteria for the philosophical foundations that are to be taken into account at any process of building national and civic education curricula and textbooks, the subject sample was represented by the national and civic Education textbooks of 8th, 9th and 10th basic grades.The researcher developed a classification for the criteria of the philosophical foundations. Such a classification consisted at ultimate version, after ensuring its credibility and validity of (27) criteria. The findings showed that The National and civic educational textbooks consest of (1106) philosophical foundations, and the distribution of philosophical foundations in the national and civic educational textbooks have not followed a certain system that correlates among them, the study showed low percentages of the philosophical foundations in the national and civic Educational textbooks of the 9 grades.

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