Validation of play-based preschool education curriculum based on Francis Klein's model.
Subject Areas : EducationVadood Shoshtari Gogtapeh 1 , mohammad ali mojallal chobglo 2 , Jahangir Yari haj atalo 3 , Zarin Dneshvar Haris 4
1 - Phd student of Curriculum Planning, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Azad University, Bonab Branch, Iran.
3 - Associate Professor, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Azad University, Tabriz Branch, Iran.
4 - Assistant Professor of Consulting. Tabriz Branch. Islamic Azad University. Tabriz. Iran.
Keywords: curriculum, game-based preschool education, Francis Klein model,
Abstract :
This research was done to validate the play-based preschool education curriculum based on Francis Klein's model in 1400-1401. In terms of method, this research is a mixed (quantitative-qualitative) type of research, and in terms of its purpose, it is an applied research, in which the qualitative approach of theme analysis is used, and for its validation, it is a descriptive survey type method, using the ratio method. Lavache's content validity and U-Man-Whitney's test were used. The statistical sample includes 30 people (20 preschool teachers who teach in preschool centers and 10 curriculum experts who have authored at least two books and 5 scientific research articles in universities and in the field of curriculum and in the field of games They had expertise, experience and research and were selected using the purposeful sampling method to the extent of data saturation. In this research, first, taking into account Francis Klein's model, the elements of the play-based preschool education curriculum were determined and to answer the questions. The research was first based on semi-structured interviews, the views of preschool teachers and curriculum experts were extracted, and then through the coding of the answers of the interviewees, coding and the final categories were determined and based on that, a model was designed, and then the model obtained by the two groups elementary school, and curriculum experts were validated and two groups confirmed the validity of the obtained model.