Attitudes of Kindergarten Teachers Towards the New National Curriculum in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Obstacles to its Implementation from their Point of View

Abstract

The study aimed to reveal the attitudes of kindergarten teachers towards the new national curriculum and the obstacles to its implementation from their point of view according to the variables (scientific qualification, years of experience, and type of kindergarten), using the descriptive analytical approach, and the questionnaire consisting of (26) items distributed on two axes: the axis of teachers' attitudes, and the axis of obstacles to the implementation of the curriculum The study sample reached (384) A teacher of kindergarten teachers in Al-Ahsa Governorate of the Eastern Province  in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the results of the study showed the existence of high positive trends among the study sample towards the national curriculum in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the presence of statistically significant differences between the averages of the scores of the study sample according to the qualification variable and in favor of postgraduate studies, and  there are no statistically significant differences between the averages of the scores  of the study sample according to  the variable years of experience,  The existence of statistically significant differences according to  the kindergarten variable and in favor  of public  kindergartens, and one of the most prominent obstacles to the implementation of the new national curriculum is the large number of burdens and tasks required of the teacher during the daily program,  and the sudden change of curricula and the adoption of the new national curriculum.