Iranian Journal of Curriculum Studies

Iranian Journal of Curriculum Studies

Designing And Validation of the Early Childhood Art Curriculum Model

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
fatemehzahra rezaee 1
Ali Hosseinkhah 2
Marjan Kian 3
afsaneh kamran 4
1 Elementary teacher of Neka city Mazandaran province
2 Assistant of Curriculum Studies, Kharazmi University of Tehran
3 Kharazmi University
4 Tehran, Faculty of Art and Architecture kharazmi University
10.22034/jcs.2024.402155.2093
Abstract
The current research was done with the aim of designing and validating the model of the early childhood art curriculum. The research method was of mixed type. The sources of information were all the upper documents available in the field of art and all countries and approaches that had successful and impressive experiences in the field of art curriculum, and in the quantitative part, experts in curriculum planning and art who used the exemplary method targeted sampling was selected. The tool for collecting the qualitative part, related documents and sources, and the quantitative part was a researcher-made questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the opinion of experts and reliability was obtained using the agreement coefficient for components above 0.8. In order to determine the validity of the designed model, the opinions of experts and curriculum and art experts were collected using the Delphi method and the final model with the elements of educational-artistic ideals, content, activities and creative educational materials, creative teaching-learning strategies, the artistic environment and space, the role and interaction of the teacher with the child and creative evaluation were developed.
 
Keywords
Curriculum pattern design
art
early childhood
accreditation

Subjects

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  • Receive Date 22 June 2023
  • Revise Date 10 December 2023
  • Accept Date 10 December 2023