EDUCATION ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE TEXTBOOKS OF ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS STUDIES I-IV FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL

Abstract

In this article the author discusses to what extent Islamic religious studies text books for the first four years of primary school include the contexts concerning rights of survival and development rights of the child as two of four categories of the rights of the child granted by the UN Convention of 1989. Keeping in mind the importance of the textbook as a teaching instrument, with this research the author is attempting to encourage teachers of religious studies to use the contents of textbooks as a bases for creating teaching events through various teaching methods that would help introduce children to the rights of the child. The author, thus found out that out of 228 teaching units that are contained in the textbook of Islamic religious studies for the first four grades of primary school, 59 units or 25.88 % contain the topics related to the education about the rights of the child to a survival and the rights of the child to a development. This clearly shows the significance of the role of religious studies in education about the rights of the child in primary school.