التمثلات الإجتماعية للتعليم التحضيري في الجزائر
The preschool education stage, by its activation in educational policies, is focused on the importance of the specificity of the stage in the development of the child’s personality features, formation and preparation for the future, in balance and integration. The major means and goals are from the nature of education in it. In Algeria, the preschool education institutions go beyond a school, a kindergarten, a mosque, and cultural associations. In this scientific study, which aims to know the social representations of parents towards preschool education with a comparative methodological study towards school, mosque and kindergarten education) and based on a set of variables, the main questions of the following study were based: Dimensions of the physical educational space? 2 - Does the structure of the social representations of the parents of the profile of the preparatory stage learner differ according to the different dimensions of the intangible educational space? As for the comparative descriptive approach, by adopting the questionnaire as a main tool for data collection applied to a sample intended to study, the size of which was 81 individuals from various institutions of the spatial domain of the study (schools - kindergartens - mosque) The study reached the following results: The school represents the most organized dimension of the educational process in the social imagination, and in embracing the educational process in a formal and reliable capacity. As well as in the education of arithmetic and the principles of scientific and sports education. Parents' representations participate in various educational spaces (school, kindergarten, and mosque) in meeting the needs of a preparatory child in terms of learning to read, write and general moral principles. Similar to the agreement on the mosque's programs in promoting the linguistic and religious aspects, then the results of the kindergarten come. And the school social representations differ in varying degrees of the profile of the preschool education learner according to the quality of the educational space (school, kindergarten, mosque) with the quality of education and the quality of programs that are confined to the mosque and the attitudes of parents towards private education (kindergarten) according to the cultural and recreational indicator and the multiplicity of activities. (Author's abstract)