The Development of Thai Early Childhood Education Curriculum to Promote Desirable Characteristics of Preschool Children

AbstractThe main purpose of this research was to develop the desirable characteristics of preschool children based on Thai education. The study was carried out in two phases. The specific objective of the first phase was to develop a curriculum and to test the quality of the curriculum, while the objectives of the second phase were to investigate the results of experiments and to evaluate the implementation of the curriculum. The research result through the method of research and development (R&D) was that Thai early childhood education curriculum promoted desirable characteristics of preschool children with quality. The results of the experiments revealed that the curriculum made the readiness mean of preschool children to be higher; the desirable characteristics of preschool in general were at the high level; and the curriculum was well effective and suitable to apply to the learning management of preschool children