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Relationship Between Parental Role And Early Childhood Education And Its’ Development
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1.6 Significance of the Study
It
is a general belief that early childhood education is of great
importance, because it is the foundation for other levels of education,
just as a well laid foundation is the strength of the structure.
However, the recommendations and findings of this work would be
beneficial to the following:
Children: Children from home where there
is love, care and interaction easily discover themselves which aided
their social and academic development.
Parents: They will be able to
know that early love, care and good nurture on children breeds
responsible leaders of tomorrow, which wealth, position cannot
compensate.
Teachers: The teacher will be able to see themselves as
both parents and teachers and learn to be more dynamic in handling the
children taken into consideration their various educational and
socio-economic background.
School authority: The school will learn to
be accommodating, counsel parents from time to time when the need be,
so that both the school and parents will be able to communicate and work
together toward the children development.
The government: The
government will be able to put in place policy and encouragement that
will avail them the special educational technique on early childhood
education.
1.7 Scope of the Study
This study will cover 5 (five) nursery schools in Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State.
1.8 Limitation of the Study
In this study, timeframe, finance and other logistics would be considerable constraints to the completion of this work.
1.9 Definition of Terms
Parental
Role: This term refers to the functions or activities laid by parents
towards the upbringing and education of the children and wards.
Attitude:
A predisposition or a tendency to respond positively or negatively
towards a certain idea, object, person, or situation.
Childcare Practices: Is the totality of care given to a child from conception to adolescent.
Practitioners:
The term refers to all ECD education and training development
practitioners. This encompasses the whole spectrum of ECD educators,
trainers, facilitators, lecturers, caregivers, development officers,
etc, including those qualified by their experience, and who are involved
in providing services in homes, centres, and schools.
Care: Refers to the behaviours and practices of a caregiver.
Cognitive: Refers to changes in the individuals thought, intelligence, and language.
Development:
The pattern of movement of change that begins at conception and
continues through the early childhood of the child which include
cognitive, biological and socioemotional processes.
Early Childhood: Refers to children between zero and eight years of age (0 – 8 years).
Early Childhood Education (ECE): Is education given in an educational institution to children from birth to eight years old.
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