The Availability of the Values of Citizenship and It’s Concepts in the Books of National Education, Saudi Arabia, from the Teachers’ Perspective

The purpose of the study was to investigate valuesand concepts included in Civil Education books in Saudi Arabia, and teacher evaluation of the availability of values and concepts. To achieve the study the researcher analyize the contents of the civil education books (fourth grade - third year secondary), a sample has been selected consisting of 180 teachers of civil education, who taught during (2009/2010), in Alqasim schools. Two instruments were developed. The first one was used to analyize the contents of national education books, while the second one was used to evaluate teachers of books' content. The result showed that there is no balance in social values distribution (honesty, trust and co-opration) for (sixth grade –first secondary). The result showed a large number of social values are included in the national education books compared to international and personal values. The results showed that teachers' evaluation of values and concepts included in the national education books in personal field was high.
Teachers' evaluation of the values and concepts in the national and social field was medium. Teachers evaluation for values and concepts in the global field was medium.The study presents a group of relevant recommendations.