The Challenges of Implementing Early Childhood Care and Education: The Case of Nifas Silk Iafto Sub City, Woreda 02
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2021-12
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The general objective of the study was to assess the challenges of implementing early
childhood care education in Nifas Silk Lafto Sub city wored 02 of Addis Ababa.In order to
get relevant data for this study, the researcher used two data gathering tools. These are semi
structured interview for administrators and questionnaire for teachers after gathering the
available data from thirteen administrators and 133 teachers who have been teaching in
different public preschools in Nifas Silk Lafto Sub city, the data were analyzed both
qualitatively and quantitatively in terms of thematic approach. The result from the above
analysis revealed that there are different challenges to implement early childhood care
education are lack of available materials, absence of trained teachers, lack favorable
environment of the school, lack of outdoors and indoors in the schools, lack of cooperation of
parents in the school, lack of well designed curriculum. From the conclusions reached, the
researcher forwards recommendations such as concerned bodies should organize successive
workshops, seminars and in-service trainings so that teachers can get the chance to share
experiences on how to cope with the existing problems in teaching children in preschools,
Preschool curriculum designers should consider the culture, the social and economic way of
life of the society and also design child-centered approach which includes a holistic view of
the child, the preschool administrators and concerned bodies should consider large class
and find solution to it and parents should cooperate with school teachers to cultivate
learners’ personality.
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Words: Teaching methods, Early childhood, Early childhood education, Curriculum