Democratic education in kindergartens as perceived by teachers in public and private schools

Abstract EN

The purpose of this study was to find out the differences in preschool teachers’ views regarding democratic education in public and private kindergartens.

The population of this study consists of kindergarten's teachers in public and private preschools in Menofya Governorate , Egypt.

In the selection of sampling, the numbers of public and private preschools, and preschool teachers(all were females) .200 preschool teachers (100 teachers from public schools and 100 from private schools)were surveyed.

All the teachers hold state teaching certificates; that is they were specialized in preschool education.

Scale for Democratic Behaviour in kindergarten's Classroom developed in particular for this study.

showed that there were no differences in preschool teachers’ views regarding democratic education in public and private kindergartens.