Measuring the Historical Concepts of Kindergarten Children

Abstract

Historical concepts are among the concepts that are difficult to present to the pre-school child except by using modern techniques, as well as the difficulty of making visits to all historical monuments and going back to antiquity and the lack of studies in this area, therefore, we need an attractive medium that children love which is able to convey some abstract concepts that are difficult to teach to children using traditional methods, and among these activities that the kindergarten provides to children are the stories through which they develop their linguistic wealth, consolidate their religious and spiritual inclinations, refine their correct morals, and form their proper attitudes, knowledge and life concepts.

The aim of the current research is to define:

1- Historical concepts of kindergarten children, which are achieved through the following hypothesis:

- There is no statistically significant difference between the average of marks of children on the historical concepts test and the hypothetical average. The current research is specified the children in government kindergartens in Wasit Governorate (Al-Aziziyah District) for ages (5-6) years old for both genders. Therefore, the children were randomly selected from Al Buruj kindergarten, which numbered 100 children, boys and girls, in order to achieve the objectives of the research, the researcher presented the 16 items of the historical concepts test in their initial form to a group of experts in educational and psychological sciences, and then the apparent validity of the items was extracted using the chi-square equation (Ka2), thus the number of test items reached (14) items, after conducting the statistical analysis, two items fell in the discrimination test, and the measure became (12) items in its final form.

     The research found that kindergarten children suffer from weakness in historical concepts, and based on these results, the researcher reached a number of appropriate recommendations and suggestions.