A content analysis of secondary history textbooks in Somalia in the light of fostering historical thinking skills

Abstract EN

-This article aims to examine the extent of the secondary history textbooks in Somalia, which consist of four grades to foster historical thinking skills.

Thus, to achieve the purpose of the study, the researcher followed a deductive method of qualitative content analysis by using the QDA MINER LITE and SPSS.

The results revealed that there was a significant difference between the four grades of the secondary history textbooks associated with fostering the historical thinking skills as well as among proportions of the five benchmarks of the historical thinking skills to the four grades.

The results of the study also showed that grade 10 has the highest rank of fostering the historical thinking skills while grade 9 represents the lowest rank