Content analysis of Persian high school textbooks based on John Dewey's Problem Solving theory

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Department of Persian Language and Literature Education, Farhangian University,P.O. Box 14665-899, Tehran, Iran.

10.22111/jeps.2025.47987.5658

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Problem solving is one of the most important personal and social skills, and John Dewey has one of the most important theories in this field. Considering the necessity of teaching this skill in adolescence, the present research investigated the problem solving skill in high school Persian Textbooks based on this theory through integrated content analysis. The statistical population of the research was the texts of the first and second high school Persian text books published in 1402, and statistical sampling was avoided. The investigations showed that in all grades, the most attention was given to problem solving skills in the main lessons and the capacity of other texts was not used much. Another thing is that out of a total of 35 first secondary texts and 41 second secondary texts, only one reading in 10th text book and one lesson in 12th text book fully corresponded with the 6 stages of Dewey's model, and the rest of the texts were some important stages of this model, including gathering information and Examining and testing the initial solutions in order to choose the best way was not possible. Therefore, it is suggested that in the changes of Persian Textbooks, the ability to strengthen the problem solving skills of students by choosing richer texts from this point of view should be taken into consideration by the authors and before these changes, this deficiency will be compensated by creative measures of teachers.

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