Content analysis of textbooks (political knowledge, applied economics, organization and management) of Austria's high school course on the main and basic principles of social responsibility

Abstract

In the last decade, social responsibility emerged as a field of study that was previously called "Urban Education and Citizenship". This new concept is much broader, in the sense that it means the development of social skills that enable a person to be a responsible and active member of the larger society and political community. In this regard, education has a key and essential role, and in fact, the main challenge in the education system is to match the society's culture with the patterns and goals. Social responsibility, as one of the main goals of educational planners in coding the textbooks, must be considered. To understand and investigate this issue, high school textbooks in Austria, due to having the most advanced and accepted educational systems in the world, were evaluated. This article aims to determine the components of social responsibility in the content of Austrian high school textbooks (teaching political knowledge, applied economics, organization and management), based on qualitative content analysis. It seeks to answer the question that to what extent the social responsibility has been considered in these textbooks? Results show that the economic dimension of social responsibility has been considered more than the social dimension in the mentioned books.