International Kindergarten Standards Included in the Palestinian Kindergarten Guide

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the international kindergarten standards included in the Palestinian kindergarten guide, and to achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher adopted the descriptive analytical approach, and the study sample was the Palestinian kindergarten guide issued by the Ministry of Education in (2017). As for the study tool, the researcher modified the Emirati document that emerged from the British Columbia document and the Canadian-Canadian study (The Full-Day Early Learning Kindrgarten Program) The results of the analysis in the Palestinian kindergarten guide showed that the descending order of the topics of the twenty-first century is as follows: Health knowledge ranked first, followed by national awareness, environmental knowledge third, followed by community knowledge, and financial, economic, business and global awareness. The results of the study also revealed that the descending order of the twenty-first century skills for the basics of the future life of the learner in kindergarten included in the guide is as follows: The criterion of productivity and accountability ranked first, the criterion of communication and communication ranked second, in third place critical thinking and problem solving, in fourth place learning by innovation and creativity, and in fifth place came the criterion of initiative and self-direction, followed by the application of information technology in sixth place, in seventh place future leadership, followed by media knowledge in eighth place, and in ninth place it was obtained by the criterion of social and cultural skills, and in The tenth place is the criterion of information knowledge, while flexibility and adaptation received the last percentage.