شبكة المعلومات العربية التربوية

The Purpose of the study was to focus on exploring children’s rights that are implicit in social studies and citizenship textbooks in the Saudi general education, in the light of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child, as well as to know level of sequence and integration of children’s rights, in order to build a matrix of the range and sequence of children’s rights in the textbooks of Social Studies and Citizenship in general Saudi education. The study applied the descriptive analytical method and used content analysis Reliability and validity for the tool was achieved. The results of the study led to a list of 97 items representing the Rights of the Child, distributed in (8) domains. In addition, the results of content analysis revealed that children’s rights were not balanced, insufficient and varies in the books of Social Studies and Citizenship. Also the results showed big varies between child rights domains in sequence level in three books range between (0.72%-10.07%). Also, the results showed no integration between child rights and domains in three books, where the Chi-Square Value was (48) not statistically significant at (α ≤ 0,05). In view of this, a model for the matrix of the range and sequence of the rights of child and Privacy of Saudi Society were designed in the books of Social Studies and Citizenship books. Based on the findings of the study, a set of relevant recommendations were suggested. (Published abstract)