The effectiveness of a training program based on the use of the knitting loom to gain children in care homes some skills in according to Egypt's 2030 strategy

Abstract

Childhood is considered one of the most important stages of a person’s life, because his personality and public perception are formed at this stage, so if it is built in a correct way, it results in a healthy person who can face the difficulties of life with all persistence. Skills are among the basic requirements that a child needs in his compatibility with his community, and they are numerous, because pre-school children cannot master the complex skills that require physical and nervous maturity to a certain degree, but they are able to fully master some simple skills that prepare them to acquire Complex skills. Among the aims of the state currently is to provide children with a set of skills and develop it in line with the level of children's growth and maturity at this stage. Manual skills are one of the skills that a child can practice, at the end of the age of five, the child can achieve a great deal of balance and control of the fine muscles, and as the skill is a sequential movement that is usually acquired through continuous training, which if acquired and learned, becomes an inherent habit In the behavior of the child where he performs without prior thinking about its steps or stages, and because the nature of the shelter role limits the satisfaction of many children’s needs due to the large number of residents, so this study aims to develop some skills for children in care homes that help them to use their energy in a positive way and develop it in order to improve their current and future, through some skills of children knitting loom to employ the implementation of utility products, and satisfy some personal needs. The study was applied to some girls of the Girls' Foundation. The study included (20) girls as a pilot group who were trained according to a training plan. The results of the study showed, the effectiveness of the application of training in providing children with care homes knowledge and skills of knitting loom at, where there were statistically significant differences at the level of 0.05 in the development of knowledge and skills of the experimental group as well as towards the opinions of specialists in the quality of products in addition to that the views of children were positive towards a learning method Knitting art skills using looms.

Keywords

• knitting loom; knitting; children care homes; an orphan