Early Child Hood Care and Education (ECCE):  Practices and Challenges, The case of Woldia town,  North East Ethiopia

Kifle Kassaw; Melese Astatke

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Kifle Kassaw
Melese Astatke

Keywords:

early child hood care and education (ECCE), ECCE practice, ECCE challenges

Abstract

The study attempted to assess the current practices and major challenges of Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) in Woldia town private owned 8 KG schools. As a means, mixed research method was employed to analyze both the collected qualitative and quantitative data. Participants of this study were 123 KG children, 32 teachers,8 principals,19 caregivers and34 parents who are members of Teacher Parent Student Association (TPSA). In order to select the participants, purposive, comprehensive, stratified and simple random sampling techniques were applied. The main data gathering instruments used in this study was observation, questionnaire and FGD. Moreover, document analysis was also used to collect supplementary data. Thematic data analysis techniques were also used to analyze the gathered qualitative data; whereas the quantitative data were analyzed by using statistical technique analysis of variance and post hoc comparison. The results obtained revealed that the studied private owned KG schools had no similar educational inputs.

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Early Child Hood Care and Education (ECCE): Practices and Challenges, The case of Woldia town, North East Ethiopia. (2017). Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 17(G9), 23-31. https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/2438

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