Teachers’ View on the Content of Textbooks of Socio-Economic Skills for Mentally Retarded Pupils

Beh-Pajoo, Ahmad; Abdolahi, Esmaeel; Arjmandnia, Ali Akbar

Teachers’ View on the Content of Textbooks of Socio-Economic Skills for Mentally Retarded Pupils

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Ahmad Beh-Pajoo ¹

Esmaeel Abdolahi ²

Ali Akbar Arjmandnia ³

¹ Associate professor, Department of psychology, University of Tehran

² M. A. of psychology and education of exceptional children, University of Tehran

³ Assistant professor, Department of psychology, University of Tehran

Abstract

Purpose: The present research aimed to study teachers’ view on the
content of textbooks of sociao–economic skills for mentally retarded pupils in
prevocational guidance schools.
Methodology: The research population included 35 teachers of the socio–
economic skills textbooks teaching in the provinces of Ghazvin, Guilan and
Mazandaran. The instrument used was a researcher made questionnaire. The data
obtained were analyzed using Chi-Square Test.
Findings: The results indicated that teachers evaluated the sociao–economic
skills textbooks in the categories of goals, content, principles of content
organization, time needed for teaching lessons, the role of pictures in understanding
the concepts of textbooks, appearance of textbooks, assessment of educational
progress of students, and active teaching methods completely relevant; and in the
category of using the content in everyday life as partially relevant. Finally, the
results of Chi-Square Test indicated no significant difference in the teachers’ view
on the content of textbooks of socio–economic skills.
Originality/Value: It is obvious that for enhancing both social skills economic
skills of students, we need are needed good textbooks, therefore, the present study
have provided some useful recommendations for the authors and policy makers.

Keywords

Socio–economic skills

Textbooks

Prevocational period

Mental retardation