Arab Educational Information Network

The research aimed to diagnosing the reality of kindergarten curricula in the Republic of Yemen in terms of: children's learning inputs to the curriculum, problems of books and guides of nursemaids, parents' view of the role of kindergarten in the education of their children. To achieve the research objective, the two researchers used the descriptive approach and a kindergarten card was built to collect data on the curricula reality. A questionnaire for female employees in the kindergartens to know their estimates of the problems. They were applied to 15 government and private kindergartens in the governorate of Aden 2018/2019, and (89) female employees in the kindergartens (headmistresses, supervisors, nursemaids). The research results showed the following: There are no curriculum documents in the kindergartens, with nursemaids’ guides available in the government kindergartens and commercial books in the private kindergartens, and that the children's learning inputs of the curricula are not sufficiently available in the kindergartens. The female employees estimation of the problems of the nursemaids guides was medium (70.2%), within the range (68.4%- 73.00%) for domains), and the problems of the commercial books was medium (67.60%). The results also showed that there are statistically significant differences between the estimates of female employees in the kindergartens to the view of parents of the role of kindergarten in the education of their children due to the type of kindergarten: government - private, for the benefit of female employees in the private kindergartens. The two researchers presented the most important Recommendations: Preparing a unified curriculum document for kindergartens. And develop books and guides in the light of this. (Published abstract)