The Extent of Including the Values of Global Citizenship in the Palestinian Curricula Content of Social Studies Textbooks of the Seventh and Eighth Grades

This research aims to identify the extent to which the content of the social studies textbooks for seventh and eighth grades in the Palestinian curriculum for the academic year 2020/2021 of global citizenship values is included. In order to achieve the research goals, the study used the analytical descriptive approach, and developed a tool to analyze the content after reviewing educational literature and a number of previous studies. The tool in its final form included (15) global citizenship values distributed into two fields; Political and (Legal and Social), and the paragraph was adopted as a unit of analysis.The results show that the representation of values is little and they are randomly represented. The results also show a great discrepancy in the representation of content to the target values. The most representative values were the value of freedom; it reached in the content of the seventh grade textbook (20%), and (25%) in the eighth grade textbook, while the value of moderation was completely absent from the content of both textbooks. The study recommends the need to develop the content of social studies textbooks to ensure a clear representation of global citizenship values due to its role in building and shaping the learner's personality and his/her value system.