A research taken from Dissertation " Artistic Expression by painting among Kindergarten child"

Abstract

The current study aims to identify the artistic expression as well as the aspects of artistic expression by the painting among the kindergarten children. In order to fulfill the research's goals, a sample of (400) children were chosen randomly from 19 public kindergartens of 6 directorates at Al-Rusafa and Al-Karkh in Baghdad city. The children were asked to draw a particular view. The researcher  has adopted  Al-Hamedawi scale  (2009) consisted of  (16) items, which was exposed to group of (25) experts in  psychology, education,  measurement and evaluation,  artistic  education by painting  and plastics  to show  the items reliability. As the researcher applied T-test  for  one sample  and two  samples, the coefficient of Pearson correlation, Dual discrepancy analysis, and Chi- Square, the research has reached to the following findings: the kindergarten children interested in  the artistic expression, the child  could express himself  artistically  in a considerable way, children prefer not to use  the engineering tools, the children 's disposition  in the painting  tend  toward the opened direction and not toward the closed direction, and finally the 5th years old children  are more to express  in painting  than  the 4th year old  children. Based on  these  results, the researcher has recommended the following; 1) The necessity of managing  kindergartens  to follow up  the artistic  subjects  in curriculums  of kindergartens. 2) The bodies of supervision in the Ministry of Education must follow up and prepare advanced curriculums submitted to the kindergarten which are identical to what the advanced countries have in term of using computer and iPad. 3) The Ministry of Education should offer training courses for the teachers of kindergartens to develop the color and aesthetic preference among kindergarteners. 4) The kindergarten administrations should diverse the art tools in the painting room of kindergartens. .