A Proposed Vision for a Program to Develop some Leadership Skills among Early Childhood Children in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Dr. Adelah AbdulHamid Abdulwahab Rajab

doi:10.33193/IJoHSS.41.2023.516

Dr. Adelah AbdulHamid Abdulwahab Rajab Curricula and teaching methods of early childhood specialization, Umm Al Qura University, Mecca, KSA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33193/IJoHSS.41.2023.516

Keywords: Leadership Skills, Early Childhood, Children

Abstract

The study aimed to build a program to develop some leadership skills among early childhood students, and to achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher used the experimental approach, and the study sample consisted of 30 girls in early childhood in Makkah Al-Mukarramah.

The study used the following tools:

1- The subject of the experimental treatment, which is represented in the proposed program for the development of some leadership skills.

2- Illustrated Leadership Skills Scale.

Results :

The possibility of developing leadership skills for early childhood through effective programs that provide an active learning environment that takes into account the tendencies, interests, characteristics and abilities of children in this age group.

Where there were statistically significant differences at the level of significance of 0.01 between the mean scores of the students of the research group in the pre and post measurements, in each of the illustrated leadership skills scale, as well as in the observation card, in favor of the students’ degrees in the post measurements.

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