Purpose: The present study aimed to describe the elements of the preschool curriculum with a problem-solving approach from the perspective of curriculum planning specialists and educational psychologists.Methodology: This study was a qualitative study conducted in Tehran. The population consisted of curriculum specialists (n=200) and educational psychologists (n=238) who were selected using the purposive snowball sampling method, and 24 subjects were studied until reaching theoretical saturation. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. To analyze and interpret the data, the method of thematic analysis through coding was used.Findings: The findings indicated that from the perspective of curriculum planning specialists and educational psychologists, a problem-solving curriculum for preschoolers includes goals (cognitive, attitudinal, functional), content (organization, presentation methods), teaching methods (traditional methods, attention to learner's age, instructor's characteristics, and active methods), learning activities (individual, group), instructional materials (features and types of resources), space (physical characteristics of facilities), time (duration, attention to the child's preparedness and age), grouping (attention to responsibility, respect for others, attention to ethics considerations, attention to group homogeneity, nature of the problem, group heterogeneity, number of group members, gender, age, personal differences), and evaluation (of the program based on personal, procedural, quantitative, and descriptive differences).Conclusion: Given the importance of the Comments, it can be continuously applied to and formulated for the preschool level to raise problem-solving skills in children and foster their abilities to understand and reflect on life in the future society. پرونده مقاله

The aim of this study was to design a problem-solving curriculum model for preschool children and validating it. In this study, a mixed exploratory approach (qualitative-quantitative) was used. In the qualitative part, the population included curriculum specialists, educational psychologists and preschool teachers, and new domestic and foreign theoretical foundations. Based on the criterion sampling method, 13 sources were studied and for the interview, the purposeful snowball sampling method was used and finally the sample size was considered to reach theoretical saturation (36 people). In the quantitative part, the statistical population included curriculum specialists, educational psychologists, and preschool educators. The sample size was determined based on Cochran's formula of 357 people and proportional block random sampling method was used. Data were collected in the qualitative part through semi-structured in-depth interviews and in the quantitative part through a researcher-made questionnaire. Qualitative findings were obtained by content analysis and Max QDA software. The findings of the qualitative section represent a comprehensive theme, organizing themes at two levels, the first of which includes the nine elements of the curriculum (aims, content, teaching method, learning activity, teaching materials, space, time, grouping, evaluation) and the second level includes the characteristics of each of these elements. Each of the second level organizing themes also has a number of basic themes. To validate this model, factor analysis and structural equations were used in Smart PLS3 software پرونده مقاله