Journal of Education and Human Development

The Availability of Health Education Standards in the Self-learning Curriculum for Kindergartens
Dr. Asma Margeni Hussien Ali

Abstract
The study aimed at determining the availability of health education standards in the self-learning curriculum for kindergartens. It was based on the analytical descriptive approach. The study population consisted of all the books of self-learning curriculum for kindergartens approved by the Ministry of Education in the year 2005-2006 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which amounted to seven books. The sample of the study was 42.86% of the curriculum books which are three books, the book of the unit of water, the book of the food unit, and the book of educational units summary. In order to achieve the objective of the study, the researcher used a tool for content analysis to collect data and information and analyze the content of the self-study textbooks for kindergartens. The researcher prepared a list of the standards of health education required for the pre-school child, which was finalized in seven main criteria and 67 secondary standards. The results of the study showed that the number of procedural objectives related to the standards of health education and indicators reached (127) goals out of (1184) targets for the units by 10.73%. The results also indicated that the standard of dietary education in the daily activities of education ranked first by 50%, followed by the standard of physical activity by 90%, and behavioral habits by 24.62%. In the last place came the criterion of environmental health and consumer health by 0.41%. The study recommended rethinking the content of the self-learning curriculum of kindergartens to include the standards of health education that were lacking, thus contributing to raising the health level of the child and society as a whole.

Full Text: PDF DOI: 10.15640/jehd.v9n2a11