ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on purposes, aims, objectives and priorities in pre-school education and involved the use of a range of research techniques. For the historical and idiological background of the comparative study a good deal of documentary research was undertaken into the early development of kindergarten education in Kuwait and nursery education in England. The kindergarten was founded in Kuwait in 1.954 as a child-care institution and had as its major goal the provision of socializing experiences for children below school age. Margaret McMillan campaigned for the appointment of a school medical officer, and in 1894 the first school medical officer was appointed at the Bradford School. Margaret McMillan continued her campaign for the improvement of the health of school children. The Hadow Report, published in 1955, after an investigation carried out by the Consultative Committee on Infant and Nursery Schools, reflects the influence of the educational theorists discussed on the development of pre-school education in the United Kingdom.
