PERCEIVED INFLUENCE OF DANCE ON THE ACADEMIC NEEDS OF PRE-PRIMARY SCHOOL IN LAGOS
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2018-08
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JOURNAL OF NURSERY AND PRIMARY EDUCATION INSTRUCTORS IN NIGERIA (JNPEIN)
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The focus of this study was on the perceived influence of dance on the academic needs of pre-primary school pupils in Lagos Island. Descriptive research design was adopted for this study. Four research question and two research hypotheses were generated. The targeted population comprised all teachers in all preschools in Lagos Island but the accessible population consisted of 10 pre-primary schools. The sampling technique was simple random sampling, selecting hundred (100) teachers serving as the respondents. The instruments used for data collection was self- designed questionnaire. frequency counts and percentage was used to describe demographic data of sampled respondents, mean and standard deviation, answering the generated research questions while t-test and ANOVA statistical tools were used in answering the postulated research hypothesis. The findings showed that dance has influence on the physical influence of pre-primary school pupils; dance has influence on the mental soundness of preprimary school pupils; there is no significant difference on the perceived influence of dance on the academic need of preprimary school pupils based on gender; and there is no significance difference on the perceived influence of dance on the academic needs of preprimary school based on teaching in Lagos Island. Suggestions and recommendations were made that policy makers on education should entrenched the use of dance in the national policy on education for preprimary school and school managements should orientate teachers on the relevance of dance and also ensure that they implement it in the class.
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Dance, Academic, Needs, Preprimary, Influence, School Children
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Ola-Alani E. K. and Abidogun, B.(2018)