An Investigation into the Influence of Multidimensional Curriculum-based Pre-School Education on the Development of Social Skills in Pre-school Children

The importance of childhood pre-school education in qualifying children lives, their future educational performance, and post-education years is well documented. Yet, what demands more attention is the quality of the education children receive. In the context of Iran, it has been less the case that educational practices tailored to pre-school levels are grounded in an explicit rationale. Even, in cases where a specific approach has been adopted, it has fallen prey to a comprehensive implementation and its realization has been a function of individual favors, conditions, and facilities. Overall, thematically speaking, it can be arguably claimed that present approaches are adult-oriented. Originally, the present work has evolved from hands-on experiences of the researcher with multidimensional planning plans during BA course, participation in related workshops, extensive study of relevant literature on the issue, and exploration of the impact of multidimensional curriculum-based pre-school education on flourishing social skills (as one of the key skills in our information and communication boom time) of pre-school children. The study was causal-comparative in design and Elliot and Garsham’s (1990) (SSRS) was used to collect data. The test has been normalized in the context of Iran by Beheshteh Abadi (1387). According to the findings of the study, there was a statistically significant difference between the control and experimental groups on the three social skill components of the test, suggesting the positive effect of multidimensional curriculum-based pre-school education on the development of children’s social skills in comparison to other prevalent procedures.