حقوق الطفل في كتب الدراسات الاجتـماعية والمواﻃنة بالتعليم العام في ضوء الميثاق العالمي لحقوق الطفل وخصوصية المجتـمع السعودي

Abstract

The Petrpose of the study was to focus on exploring children is rights that are implicit in Social Studies and Citizenship textbooks in the Saudi general education, in the light of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child, as well as to know level of sequence and integration of children is rights, inordbr to build a matrix of the range and sequence of children is rights in the textbooks of Social Studies and Citizenship in the general Saudi education. The study applied the descriptive analytical method and used content analysis Reliability and validity for the tool was a chieved .The results of the study led to a list of 97 items the representing Rights of The Child, it’s number is (97) distributed to (8) domains. In addition, the results of content analysis revealed that children‘s rights were not balanced, insufficient and varies in the books of Social Studies and Citizenship. Also the results showed big varies between child rights domains in sequence level in three books range between (0.72%-10.07%). Also, the results showed there were no integration between child rights and domains in three books, where the Chi-Square Value was (48) not statistically significant at (α ≤ 0,05). In view of this, a model for the matrix of the range and sequence of the rights of child and Privacy of Saudi Society were designed in the books of Social Studies and Citizenship books. Based on the findings of the study, a set of relevant recommendations were suggested. Keywords: Content Analysis, Children Rights, Universal Declaration, Social Studies and Citizenship Textbooks, Saudi General Education.