Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to determine the place of literature for children and adolescents in the textbooks of the first and second secondary courses (literature and humanities) in 1402.

Research method: In this research, 87 textbooks of all the first and second grades of high school were studied line by line using the content analysis method and based on the checklist.

Findings and results: The findings showed that in general, 349 cases of literature were used in the textbooks of the first secondary school, of which 137 cases were poems and 75 cases were stories. 1143 cases of different types of literature have been used in second secondary level textbooks, of which 780 cases were poems and 133 cases were stories. Books of literary sciences and techniques ranked first with 449 items and Persian books ranked second with 392 items. 57% of the content related to literature is presented in the margins of textbooks and 43% of it is presented in the main text of the books. Ghazal format is in first place with 370 items and Masnavi format is in second place with 279 items. New legends ranked first with 7 items, philosophical and religious legends and talking animals ranked second with 3 items. Historical stories ranked first with 73 cases, philosophical stories ranked second with 37 cases, and religious stories ranked third with 29 cases. Among the authors whose names were mentioned in the textbooks, Ali Shariati and Nader Ebrahimi with 5 works, ranked first and Shahid Motahari, Qaisar Aminpour and Abdul Hossein Zarinkoob with 4 works, ranked first. They are second. Among the poets, Saadi is on the first place with 176 poems, and Maulana is on second place with 104 poems. Iranian poets and writers and poets of the 7th, 14th and 8th centuries are the most dominant group in the textbooks of the first and second level of high school. Also, pictures of poets and writers are rarely used in textbooks. Male poets and writers are more frequent and female poets and writers have a smaller share in the educational system. The word "poetry" is ranked first with 783 repetitions, and "story" is ranked second with 383 repetitions.