The New Kindergarten Curriculum in Ghana: Critiques and Analysis on Cultural Identity and Global Citizenship as a Core Competence

Education has significantly contributed to an increase in expanding skills, creating a stimulating atmosphere for creativity, and constructing the human resources needed for a potentially informed economy. Early childhood education has become the world’s fastest expanding field in the educational enterprise. Since the project’s creation, the number of children participating in nursery programs has more than increased. Effective primary school teaching has become a major problem in many countries around the world, and most African countries, including Ghana, have made efforts to promote the accelerated development of early childhood education. Curriculum means various things to different individuals in early childhood education. It may apply to a theory, a program, or a process. The curriculum, according to the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC, 2009), consists of the information and abilities to be learned in the school program as well as the preparations for activities from which children can learn. Epstein (2007) describes education as the expertise and abilities that teachers are required to teach and children are expected to acquire, as well as the preparations for activities that will promote learning.