ASSESSING THE PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL CLIMATE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN KWARA STATE, NIGERIA
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2015-07
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ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHERS AND EVALUATORS OF NIGERIA (ASSEREN)
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A child’s learning environment is a useful tool toward the effective learning and development of the child and it should be considered in its physical and social parts. Hence, the paper assessed the physical and social climate of early childhood education learning environment in Kwara State. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. One hundred and fifty (150) early childhood schools were selected from the sixteen Local Government Areas of Kwara State. Two research questions were raised and answered and two hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance. Early Childhood Education Learning Environment Checklist-ECELEC (r=0.78) was used for data collection. Data were analysed using descriptive statistic and t-test statistic. The result showed that the quality of physical and social climate of learning environment of childhood schools in Kwara State was poor and there was significant difference between public and private schools in terms of qualities in childhood learning environment. Recommendation was made that the stakeholders especially, government owned schools should improve on the quality of both social and physical climate of early childhood schools to allow children grow optimally.
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Assessment, Early childhood education’s learning environment, Physical climate, Social climate