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Kindergarten teachers’ attitudes towards free play and its role in developing the motor skills of kindergarten children

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Ali Abd Eltawab Mohamed Etman, Sahar Mansour Sayed Omar, Salha Omarin Ahmed Mubarki
» doi: 10.33472/AFJBS.6.9.2024.566-576

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The study aimed to identify the attitudes of kindergarten teachers towards free play and a course in developing the motor skills of kindergarten children. The study sample consisted of (103) kindergarten teachers in the city of Najran in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, who were selected from government kindergarten institutions in a random manner. The study was conducted during the first semester of the academic year (2023/2024), the descriptive analytical approach was used in the study, and the researchers designed a questionnaire addressed to kindergarten teachers to find out the role of free play in developing the motor skills of kindergarten children. The questionnaire included 15 items distributed over three main areas. The first field included “the reality of developing motor skills in kindergarten for the kindergarten child”, the second “the role of the kindergarten teacher in developing the motor skills of the kindergarten child through free play activities”, and the third “proposals for activating free play in developing the motor skills of the kindergarten child in kindergarten institutions”. Children, and the results were processed and the study reached the following results: Free play has an essential role in developing the motor skills of kindergarten children to a great extent.

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