Identifying the impact of Covid-19 on the early childhood education teachers in Saudi Arabia

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Assistant Professor in Early Childhood at the College of Education Department Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University – Riyadh Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

This pandemic has negatively affected teachers and young children in their early childhood education as a results of negative impact of Covid 19 .According to (UN, 2020)  40 million children have missed out the opportunity on early childhood education. Therefore, this research shed the lights on early childhood educators which  faced a wide range of personal and professional challenges as a result of lockdown. This directly affected the females early childhood teachers  ability to provide quality education to children. It is, therefore, advisable to  adapt pedagogical approach to engage young children during  lockdown.  In this research will discuss a wide range of literature reviews and the implications of this study as well as the focus groups results from female teaches  perspectives therefore, this paper will be  concluded with the impact of covid 19 on early childhood teachers in Saudi Arabia              

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