"Education and Development' Values in Egypt Content Analysis of the Reading Courses in Pre - University Education Sociological Study "

The tasks of the educational system in any society, and more urgently in developing countries, including Egypt, are not limited to giving temporary and abstract knowledge, skills and scientific outputs. The school – as an official institution - is an effective mean of developing students' awareness. The curriculum is one of the most dangerous educational files in Egypt; because through the courses offered to the students, the features of the Egyptian personality can be articulated in the future, and what the existing system aims to achieve can be explored.
The main objective of this study is to try to answer a fundamental question: Do Courses contribute to the formulation of the system of development values? What are the indicators of this contribution? In other words, the extent to which courses contribute to instilling developmental values ​​and ignoring them to other values, and the extent to which this achieved the spread of values ​​without the other may hinder development or vice versa.
The current study used quantitative and qualitative content analysis using the comprehensive survey method to deal with the content of the Reading Course in the pre-university education stages. The content of the Reading Books was analyzed in the three stages (Primary, Preparatory, Secondary) in 2016. The analysis was carried out with the aim of identifying the content of these courses based on the analysis of the subject category and exploring the ideas contained therein separately.

The study stressed on the necessity of focusing on topics related to development in all its dimensions, which were found in the research when writing basic textbooks in Egyptian education, and studying the various developmental problems resulting from the lack of awareness to be a basis of the educational goals which seeking to root the developmental values ​​in student culture.