The civic education in Greek kindergartens. The views and the practices of Greek Kindergarten teachers concerning civic education

Argyris Kyridis, Kostis Tsioumis, Despina Papageridou, Elena Sotiropoulou

Abstract


The purpose of this study is to investigate the perceptions ​​of kindergarten teachers on the content of the term citizenship, on the importance of actions associated with citizenship education  and on their performance at school and finally on  the relation of the kindergarten curriculum  to this topic. The survey was conducted in spring of 2013, using a questionnaire with five open questions. In our research took part 171 teachers (kindergarten teachers) who were asked to describe their opinions about citizenship education and it’s importance the degree of their agreement, the degree of significance of certain proposals as long as ,the degree of frequency in related activities with civic education, as long as the assistance of school curriculum on this . Our findings indicated that the kindergarten teachers knew quite well about citizenship education, and recognized the importance of this approach for kindergarten, performed particular actions (national days, elections , actions on local problems, but they were not satisfied from the “assistance†given by the curriculum.


Keywords


preschool education, civic education, kindergarten teachers, views, practices

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