Preschool Education From Children’s Point Of View
Abstract
The aim of this
study is to determine the views of children, who are the most basic shareholder
of pre-school education, about pre-school education. The study was designed by
phenomenological design which is one of the qualitative research designs. The
study group of the study is composed of 45 six years old children attending
preschools and nursery classes under Ministry of National Education in Aydın
city centre in 2013-2014 school year. Data in the study were obtained by Mosaic
Approach. Mosaic approach is a data collection method which is based on the
consideration of children as having ability to express themselves like adults
and combining techniques like different interview techniques, child drawings,
child photographs etc.. Collected data were analyzed by Descriptive Analysis
Technique. According to the results children expressed that they come to
pre-school to be educated and to play games and they play games and routine
activities are made in the course of school time. It was determined that
children has not got any knowledge about pre-school staff and they used clear
expressions only for the duties of their teachers. Finally, children indicated
that their teacher decides what to do in the classroom and the person who will
decide things that will be done in the classroom must be their teacher, too.
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