Abstract/Overview Children develop self-identity, who they believe themselves to be, and begin to form relationships through play and peer relations which contribute to their emotional, social and cognitive development. Theories of self generally agree that an early childhood program can foster children’s self- esteem and build the foundation for future relationships with others. From interviews and observations, 4 to 6 year olds portray their internal lives of self, construct their per...
Abstract/Overview The role of a teacher in integration of play in ECDE curriculum is cruel as Play-based teaching and learning promotes positive social skills in children. Most of teachers in Kenya don’t integrate play in curriculum leading to poor performance of children yet the entire teaching and learning of small children should be entirely based on play. Public confidence in teachers’ role in integration of play is in question. The study therefore purposes to establish the role o...
Abstract/Overview The study established the influence of parenting style on involvement in education of public preschool learner, in Nandi Central Sub-County, Kenya. The study adopted the Concurrent Triangulation design within the mixed methods approach. The target population was3566 which was composed of 183 head teachers’ public primary school, 183 lead teachers of public Early Childhood Development Education and 3200 parents of top class in Nandi Central Sub-County, Kenya. The study ...
Abstract: The Botswana education system bases its philosophy on education for all using English and Setswana as the official languages for learning and teaching in schools despite the diversity of the society. Botswana has 8 Setswana ethnic groups with Setswana as their mother tongue and 26 minority languages. Some of them speak Sengologa/ Sekgalagadi; a language of their so-called masters. The Basarwa children find it difficult to converse in Setswana but are usually taught by teachers from...
Abstract This study examines ethical values and social reforms in Early Childhood Care Education. Moral and value are important virtue needed for the growth and development of every child, hence is it supposed to be inculcated for standards to be maintained in the society. The paper therefore, aims at re- awakening the schools and caregivers on the knowledge which have been neglected due to unnecessary changes in the curriculum, insufficient qualified caregivers and so on. These hamper the ef...
Objectives: This study determined the pupil’s evaluation and academic performance of Cheberen Primary School In Koibatek District, Kenya. Specificaiiy, these data were gathered: profile of pupils as to age, gender and class; the level of pupil’s evaluation in terms & pupils qualities, commitment, learning activItIes and discipline; the level & academic performance; the significant relationship between level of pupil’s evaluation and level of academic performance; and the significant dif...
The introduction of Free Primary Education (FPE) by the NARC government in 2003 heralded a new front in the national education system. Many children who had attained school going age who had been denied entry access to education due to poverty got a new window of hope whatever their age. Many thus took up the opportunity to attend school without necessary going through ECD centres. What mattered was whether one had attained the required age and not whether one had passed tests in the EC...
ABSTRACT The study set out to establish the factors that account for poor a cad em ic pe1formance in rural secondaiy schools. It was carried out along a number of objectives which included: assessing the relationship between students' discipline and academic perfo1mance, to examine the accessibility of students to learning materials and their effect on academic petlormance and to find out the effect of teachers' motivation practices on the students' academic perfonnance. From these objective...