Developing life skills in the Egyptian curriculum at primary stage | ||||
| Journal of Research in Curriculum Instruction and Educational Technology | ||||
| Article 3, Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2016, Page 43-63 PDF (2.17 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jrciet.2016.24533 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Rania Abdel Haleem Mostafa1; El-Sayed Mohamad Dadour2; Amira Ibrahim Al-Shafei3 | ||||
| 1Senior English Teacher | ||||
| 2Vice President for Community Service and Environmental Affairs -Damietta University | ||||
| 3Technical Office of the Minister of Education | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| T his study aimed at evaluating primary stage English curriculum in light of life skills . The study identified the important and suitable life skills for primary stage students by a life skills list that was prepared by the researchers and validated by jury members . The list consisted of twelve categories of life skills and forty nine main skills. The researchers also prepared a content analysis sheet that was conducted on English curriculum specified for fourth year of primary stage. The content analysis was done in the light of the life skills list . Sentence was used as the unit of analysis for investigating the extent of life skills availability in the curriculum . The results of the content analysis revealed that fourth grade primary English curriculum doesn’t reflect life skills sufficiently. Thus , the researchers constructed a suggested framework for developing that curriculum and developed the second term six units of it to improve fourth graders’ life skills . In the light of the study’s results, the researchers recommended that a lot of attention and interest should be paid for enhancing students’ life skills as early as possible starting from the primary stage, enhancing students’ life skills in all educational stages, integrating life skills in curricula , and training teachers on teaching life skills . | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| : curriculum; Curriculum development; life skills – primary stage | ||||
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