Ming-Yue Lin , Jon-Chao Hong , Ta-Joung Chin , Nanxi Chen
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The influence of preschool teachers’ critical thinking attitude on their perceived ease of understanding and integrating, and attitude toward implementation of a new curriculum
The implementation of new curriculum outlines brings advancements in education, but also disrupts teachers’ habitual work patterns. Enhancing curriculum acceptance among educational personnel remains a critical challenge. To address this issue, the present study explored the relationships between critical thinking attitude (CT attitude), perceived ease of understanding (PEU), perceived ease of integrating (PEI), and attitude toward implementation (ATI) of new curriculum outlines. Data were collected from 256 preschool teachers who had experience using Taiwan’s new curriculum outline in their teaching. After structural equation modeling, the results indicated that CT attitude was positively related to both PEU and PEI; PEI was positively related to ATI; and CT attitude was positively related to ATI, mediated by PEU and PEI. Additionally, the predictive power of PEU was greater than that of PEI in relation to ATI. The results suggest that the key to adopting new curriculum reform is teachers’ CT attitude.
期刊介绍:
Thinking Skills and Creativity is a new journal providing a peer-reviewed forum for communication and debate for the community of researchers interested in teaching for thinking and creativity. Papers may represent a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches and may relate to any age level in a diversity of settings: formal and informal, education and work-based.