Social and Political Education Presented in High School Textbooks

The present study aims to analyze the level of consideration of social and political aspects of approved goals in of the high school textbooks using a descriptive method. The research corpus included all the high school textbooks published 2016-2017 which by considering the nature of research subject with regard to the nature of the subject, social science study books were targeted as a sample. The measurement tool was a researcher-made content analysis checklist. The results of the study were analyzed by descriptive indices of Shannon entropy analysis process. The findings showed that social and political education in the textbooks is not compatible with the goals approved for the students which could inhibit the socialization process for students.