The extent to which social science issues are included in the books of biology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abstract

The study aimed to find out to which extent secondary school biology textbooks include social science issues, and the researcher used the descriptive approach in the method of analyzing the content, the content Analysis card was the tool used in the study, and the sample of Biology books (1-6) was established in The six levels at the secondary level (Quarterly system), the researcher has reached the most important results:

-The issue of "genetic engineering" was ranked first in the number of repetitions in all biology books, with a repetition (454) and a percentage (84.23).

The issue of "cloning" came in the last rank and without any repetition-

-The rest of the other six cases varied in the inclusion rate and were respectively stem cells (7.42%), human genome (4.45%), genetically modified foods (2.72%), organ transplantation (0.55%), gene therapy (0.37%).

- the Book of Biology (5) captured the largest proportion of ideas that referred to social science issues, where the repetition in this book (468) was repeated, and by a percentage (86.82%).  

Based on these findings, the researcher recommended that the biology books at the secondary level be included in more topics related to social science issues and to a greater extent the issues that have not been mentioned at all in the current books such as cloning, or very poorly referred to as organ transplantation, gene therapy, genetically modified foods, artificial human reproduction, and to include in each chapter of the biology textbooks at all levels ideas related to social science issues related to the topics of this chapter, and discuss them in all aspects of scientific, social, legal, health and other aspects which makers of these books think are important to these issues.