TY - JOUR JF - cstp JO - نظریه و عمل VL - 3 IS - 5 PY - 2015 Y1 - 2015/6/01 TI - Analysis of Multicultural Education component In Textbooks TT - مؤلفه‌های آموزش چند فرهنگی و تحلیل آن در محتوای کتب درسی N2 - The present paper aims to investigate the amount of multi-cultural education components in the textbooks of secondary schools from 2013 to 2014. It is conducted through text-analysis. The components of Multi-cultural education were initially collected from theoretical text and research background using document analysis and then they were numbered in the textbooks of secondary schools. The units of analysis were sentence, question, picture, activity, and the poem in the textbooks. Research tools were bibliography cards and inventory form in document and text analysis respectively. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics. The statistical population is the textbooks of secondary schools from 2013 to2014 and samples were Iran and International History I, Iran and International History II, History (Pre-University Schools), Social Studies (Secondary Schools), Sociology I, Sociology II, Social Studies (Pre-University Schools) which were expected to contain multi-cultural education components. The most significant results are as follows: out of 180 frequencies in the text books of secondary schools, History I with 76, i.e. 42.22% contained the most multi-cultural education components and Social Studies of secondary school with 5, i.e. 2.77% contained the least components. Among the components, “introducing various cultures to students in the content of textbooks” had the largest number of frequencies, i.e. 59 and “helping to understand and tolerate different opinions from various cultures, and defining multi-culture homework for students in the content of textbooks” had the smallest one, only 1, i.e. 0.55%.     SP - 111 EP - 128 AU - Vafaei, Reza AU - Sobhaninejad, Mahdi AD - Shahed university KW - Multicultural Education KW - Text-analysis KW - Textbooks KW - Secondary schools UR - http://cstp.khu.ac.ir/article-1-2507-en.html DO - 10.18869/acadpub.cstp.3.5.111 ER -