Journal of New Advances in Educational Management

Journal of New Advances in Educational Management

The effect of citizenship skills training on the attitude towards social and behavioral harms of secondary school girl students

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Abbas Gholtash 1
Fatameh Ranjbar 2
Sadigheh Mohammadjani 3
Vahid Moradkhah 4
1 Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran
2 Specialized Doctorate in Educational Management, Shiraz District 3 Education Department
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran
4 Specialized Doctorate in Philosophy of Education, Shiraz University
10.22034/njournal.2024.213964
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to explain the effect of citizenship skills training on the attitude of first secondary school girls towards social harms. The method of conducting this research was quasi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of the present study was female students of the first year of high school in Shiraz in the academic year of 2023-2024. Using a random cluster sampling method, two classes of the same grade from the same school (one of the classes as the experimental group and the other as the control group) were selected from the girls' first secondary schools of education in Se Shiraz district. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect information, which covers components such as aggression, suicide, sexual issues, drugs, theft and running away from home. The content validity of the questionnaire was obtained and confirmed based on the opinion of experts in the field of psychology and its reliability according to Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The collected data were analyzed by covariance analysis. The findings showed that the training of citizenship skills based on the compiled educational package had an effect on the attitude of female students of the first year of high school towards social harm and its components, including theft, aggression, drugs, suicide and running away from home, but it had little effect on The target group has no attitude towards sexual issues.
Keywords
Teaching citizenship skills
citizenship education
attitudes towards social-behavioral harms
female students
first secondary
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  • Receive Date 27 October 2024
  • Revise Date 09 November 2024
  • Accept Date 25 November 2024
  • Publish Date 21 December 2024