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Keywords

• Islamic Education textbooks
• Affection Values
• the secondary stage.

Abstract

The study aimed at identifying the extent to which the textbooks of Islamic Education contain affection values for the secondary stage. The study sample consisted of all Islamic Education textbooks for the first and second secondary grades in Jordan for the scholastic year 2013- 2014. To answer the questions, the descriptive method was used and the content analysis list was built, which consisted of three sectors (The affection values related to faith and worships, the affection values connected with the school and family, the affection values connected with the state and public order) and the paragraph was used as a unit for analysis. The study results showed that the affection values connected with faith and worships in the textbooks of the study sample ranked first. Furthermore the affection values connected with the state and public order ranked second followed by the affection values connected with the family and school which ranked third. And the highest frequencies were for the affection values for the affection for justice and equality, then the affection for Quran followed by the affection for Islamic scholars. Whereas nine areas in the affection values has not received any repetitions and they are the affection values of angels, fasting, zakkah, pilgrimage, teachers, friendship, cleanliness, homeland and neighbors. The study has provided a set of recommendations that would develop the Islamic Education textbooks in the secondary stage in Jordan.