Concepts of Good Citizenship in Civic Education Courses in The Upper Basic Stage Grades in Palestine

Abstract

The study aimed at analyzing the content of Civic education books of fourth, fifth, and sixth grades in middle stage in Palestine to acknowledge the contents of the books on good citizenship. The researcher prepared a list of(37) items, which represent the concepts of good citizenship, in order to accomplish the objectives of the study. These concepts were analyzed in view of the list. The Reliability coefficient was verified, it was estimated 0.84. it resulted the presence of: -Many good citizenship concepts were mentioned repeatedly in the curricula and objectives of the civic education to fourth, fifth, and sixth grades in Palestine. These concepts vary in the degree of redundancy in each grade. - Civic education books focus on ready theoretical knowledge as a source of information. - The absence of some concepts and good citizenship concepts noticeably from the content. - Teaching the concepts in the books of the three grades and the distribution of the concepts do not include.