سیمیاء المواطنة في مطبوعات الأطفال الأدبیّة العمانیة مجلة مرشد الأدبیّة للأطفال نموذجاً

Citizenship education does not need enormous policies and strategies Rather, it needs simplified educational methods that are appropriate for the child in the society, and among these methods is the use and recall of the mechanism of stories directed at children and tailored to them, which are filled with humor, fun, and interest. From here we bring to view that children's literature is a fertile space for investment in the development of behaviors that enhance the values and concepts of citizenship and entrench a sense of identity in the child. Through our review of Omani child literature, we find various publications directed at him such as poetry, theatrical, short stories, folk tales, and graphic stories. On top of these publications is the Children's Murshid Magazine, which we took as a sample for our study in this research. We will discuss tracking the path and process of the semiotics of citizenship and the values embedded in it. Based on these data and through the analytical method, the researchers are about to answer the following questions.
Firstly, does the magazine's content touch the goals of citizenship education? Secondly, did the literary treatments of the magazine's chapters highlight the concepts of citizenship? Thirdly, to what extent has this perspective implemented throughout the magazine?
The research was in its kind an analytical research based on the qualitative approach by 98%, and this necessitated standing on a random sample of the issues of Murshid magazine, which is considered a community intended for the study. The researchers chose a random sample of 15 issues from Murshid magazine, distributed over the five years of the magazine’s life, so that they dealt with three issues for each year, to analyze them and determine the extent of the existence of its educational dimensions on citizenship, its indicators and objectives in the magazine’s various sections, and they concluded that The chapters of the magazine reflected the elements of citizenship in various cultural, historical, geographical, social, religious, artistic and subjective dimensions, which were based in their data on behaviors, attitudes and ideas reviewed by the magazine in its various sections.; The researchers found that the achievement of the cultural cognitive dimension was equal with the achievement of the social dimension in the magazine’s chapters, as each of them obtained a percentage of (29%) of the total of the other dimensions, and the emotional dimension came in second place with a percentage of (24%), and this confirms the interest of the magazine The development of emotional attitudes, values, positive feelings and others among the reader, while the skill dimension came third with a percentage of (18%), which is not a small percentage, but it is considered good compared to what other magazines provide for children in terms of skills, movement and activities under this axis.
Preparing the child to be the leader of tomorrow requires comprehensive development for all the areas surrounding it, especially the political, economic, scientific and social, and negligence in preparing him for the optimal preparation and rooting the values ​​of citizenship, and his identity may lead the child in an undesirable direction in the youth stage, and for this the child must be taken care of in aspects related to the formation of his mentality Primary and basic, and this is highlighted by presenting a scientific material commensurate with its characteristics at this stage. Literary materials such as stories, poems, plays and magazines are among the most important guides that help in promoting the spirit of citizenship among children, especially as they are considered a written form of knowledge, and this makes their impact more continuous and rooting for the ideas they contain. We must point out that the elements of citizenship and its indicators must be realistic, simple, proportionate to it, and directly related to its environment, in addition to the importance of its diversity, and therefore vary between religious, cultural, geographical, environmental, linguistic, civil, historical, and technological indicators... in addition to the need to write them in a language child friendly simple; To facilitate understanding and memorization, and thus attachment to these stories and continuous reading (Sharifa, 2015, Issue 11: 64).
The childhood stage, as a fertile stage, requires careful care. On the other hand, its impact - positive or negative - extends to all the following stages of development; That is why this study came to shed light on the semiotics of citizenship in Omani children’s publications, Murshid magazine as a model, to identify its most prominent features and methods of processing and presenting them to the child reader.
The research aims to identify the semiotics of citizenship in Omani children’s publications, Murshid magazine as a model, and to identify the most important indicators that enhance the spirit of citizenship, in addition to presenting some models from the magazine’s chapters, and analyzing them to extract the most important indicators that help develop the spirit of citizenship.
The importance of the research is that it clarifies the importance of the childhood stage in forming a real identity for an adult citizen who is responsible for his homeland, its renaissance and its future development. values, and their reinforcement in the child reader; Which will benefit writers and those interested in the future in extrapolating the semiotics of citizenship in what is produced for the Omani child in particular, and the Arab child in general; Due to the danger of the contents of these publications on the mentality and knowledge of children. The research emphasizes the importance of the magazine with its doors and the diversity of its stories as it is closely related to the individual in childhood, and a factor in shaping his personality, and this research comes in light of the lack of studies concerned with tracking the semiotics of citizenship and its values ​​in what the child writes and publishes.