Abstract:
This research was conducted with the aim of examining moral education, the necessities of research ethics, and the extent of applying research ethics components in social studies books for the elementary level. The research method was mixed-methods, and the research population included, firstly, the set of available texts and research conducted regarding moral education and research ethics, and secondly, social studies books (history, geography, and civics) for the elementary level, including 5 books for the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, and the sixth-grade workbook for the academic year 2013-2014. The data collection tool included a researcher-made content analysis checklist, whose reliability and validity were confirmed by educational science specialists and relevant experts. The most important results of this research are that among the social studies books of the elementary level, the highest amount of attention to the foundations of research ethics was related to the sixth-grade social studies book, and the lowest amount was related to the sixth-grade social studies workbook.
Machine summary:
Formal institutions and organizations: These institutions possess a legal status and can influence the activities of seminaries through policy-making via legal channels.
Formal Policy-making Institutions Formal policy-making institutions are those that, by possessing legal powers and legislative channels, have the ability to exert extensive influence on the activities of scientific and research centers.
In Iran, the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, by steering scientific and cultural issues after the Islamic Revolution, is the most important policy-making institution in the field of science.
Furthermore, by approving the Comprehensive Scientific Map of the country in 2010, through determining three categories of priorities and thirteen macro-strategies, the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution holds an important role in the policy-making of the activities of the seminary.
These kinds of duties, a significant part of which is in the field of policy-making, can influence the research centers of the seminary.
Informal Policy-making Institutions The aforementioned institutions and centers are the official centers that determine or influence the policy-making of the research activities of the seminary.
In other words, the environment is considered a policy-making institution in the planning pyramid of organizations.
, provides the ground for conveying new policies to the research organizations and institutions of the seminary.
Now, by observing how policy is exercised by informal institutions in the research activities of the seminary, its influential power can be understood.
Research organizations, to preserve their own policies and reduce the influence of informal environment policymakers, can take two essential actions: First, identifying these institutions is an essential and fundamental step.
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