Content Analysis of Grade 1 Textbooks Regarding Social Skills

Abstract

The study was aimed to analyze the content of Grade 1 textbooks in terms
of to what extent the content supported the development of social skills in
students? Content analysis method of qualitative research to collect and
analyze the data was applied. The population of the study consisted of all
the textbooks of grade 1 published by Punjab curriculum and textbook
board Lahore, Pakistan for the academic year 2020-21. Textbooks of 3
subjects: Urdu, English and General Knowledge were selected through
purposive sampling. A checklist developed in the light of reviewed
literature related to social skills, was used as a research tool to analyze the
textbooks content. The checklist was also got validated from ten PhD
experts in the field. To find out social skills given in the checklist the
manifest and latent content of the selected textbooks was analyzed. It was
found that the content of the selected text books supported the
development of these 5 social skills: communication, decision making,
cooperation, empathy and interpersonal relationship skills. However, the
content supported the development of communication skill at high level.