التنشئة الاجتماعية وحقوق الإنسان: كتب اللغة الإنجليزية في مرحلة التعليم الأساسي في الأردن نموذجاً

Abstract

The study analyses the process of socializing human right the English language textbooks within the basic stage of the Jordanian system to achieve this aim the researcher surveyed the concepts of human rights as revealed in the relevent textbooks of the given stqge. The research methodology applied the quantitative -qualitative content analysis technique. a comprehnsive coking schedule conprizing all the concepts of human rights was designed. The study showed no direct reference to these rights in the English textbooks. Rather, such concepts (i.e. the right of human dignity, tolerance and solidarity, freedom and the right of the social justice) were implicitly stated. The study showed further that the presentation of these concepts in the textbooks was inconsistent with respect to the age and cognitive development of those children.