Political Concepts in Jordanian Schools Curricula of the Scientific and Literary Streams (Grades 11th and 12th)

The study aims at identifying political concepts in Jordanian schools curricula for grades 11th and 12th in the scientific and literary streams .Books were analyzed according to the content analysis approach. The results showed that political concepts were more obvious in the 12th grade of the literary stream if compared to the 11th grade. It was concluded that more attention to political concepts should be given in the scientific stream in order to contribute to developing students’ political understanding, so as to beable to deal with global issues, in addition to teaching concepts renouncing ideological extremism. The study recommends that more quality political concepts should be introduced in the scientific stream curricula.