Institute of Educational

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This study was developed to analyze the effectiveness of play in children's participation. The research method in the present study is applied and survey. In this regard, in order to collect data, field observations, questionnaires, and site visits are used. The sampling method was randomly completed using Cochran's formula and a questionnaire was completed by 92 children aged 7-12 years. Data analysis was performed to evaluate the effect of symbolic, educational and collective games and children's participation in children's perception in Sajjad neighborhood of Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi province using a combined method using two types of quantitative and qualitative data with a sequential approach. In data analysis to evaluate the effect of role play in participation after data collection, the data were analyzed by one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Kolmogorov-Smirnov hypothesis test and the significance level of the indicators using Spearman correlation. Cronbach's alpha was used to evaluate the reliability, which indicates a reliability coefficient of 0.924. In the analysis of qualitative data, children's drawings have been examined. The results of the study indicate that the use of appropriate contexts for children's play has a significant impact on children's participation. Differences in children's age groups make a difference in how important they are to environmental qualities. The age group of 7-9 years old is interested in painting and playing games and pays attention to facilities and equipment, sense of place and participation, while the age group of 10-12 years old is more interested in painting, singing and playing ball, and they They pay attention to identity and diversity in urban spaces

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Nowadays, paying attention to textbooks as a written and codified axis of education in terms of paying attention to issues and components of citizenship, and especially citizen participation along with educational aspects, is very important and is an important aspect of an efficient school. Therefore, this study seeks to examine the extent to which textbooks pay attention to the teachings and skills required for citizen participation. The present research is descriptive-analytical and in order to achieve the intended goals, the elementary school textbooks of the academic year 2020 -2021 as the statistical population of the study were analyzed by content analysis method and the data were processed using Shannon entropy method. Findings show that in general, eight skills of questioning, participating in discussions, listening to discussions and understanding issues, responsibility, cooperation and working with others, sense of place, awareness of citizenship rights and duties, and knowledge of the city and urban management institutions. The required skills related to education and the institutionalization of citizen participation can be on the agenda. In this regard, the emphasis of textbooks is often focused on the two skills of cooperation and working with others and participation in discussions, and other skills have been neglected.