Islam va Pazhuheshhaye Tarbiyati

This research seeks to investigate the contents of ‘’Hadyehay-e-Asman’’an elementary school textbook for grade 3 (new edition, 1392) based on the principles of selection of educational contents in the Holy Qur’an. To achieve the above-mentioned aim, a ‘’content analysis’’ method is used in this study. The population sample is the very statistical population. A content analysis list whose validity is confirmed is used. The unit of analysis consists of sentence and an image and the unit of counting the frequency. The research results show that, from among the four principles in this book drawn from the Holy Qur’an, alongside their indexes, the principles of ‘’guidance-providing content’’ and ‘’motivation-generating content’’ have a special status. But, since such principles like ‘’reflection provoking” enjoys a relative status as well as “creativity nurturing” have received less attention, and in order, to create more intellectual challenges, it is suggest that the students be urged to think about the creation of the world and and about themselves by raising many and varied questions in the texts and encouraging meditation on nature and natural surroundings in order to create new opportunities for students to develop new ideas and formalize them