- Rabi Muhammad Abdullahi 1*, Kabiru Isiyaku 2 & Abubakar Garba 3
- Kano State College Of Education and Preliminary Studies P.M.B 3145
Introduction: There has been great concern on how children grow in conducive environment that caters their wellbeing and development, parents need to be enlighten that the welfare and education of children is the responsibility of all. Continuous training, good nutrition, proper upbringing, healthy conditions and nurturing individuals are foremost requirements for grooming young future leaders. This process must commence from grassroots to the stems and its branches. Early childhood care and education is the process of achieving the aim through training productive, active, entrepreneur, and inventive, educative, scientific and technological oriented individual.
Purpose: Once the societal children are fully engage, then parents are at liberty to conveniently work for daily bread promptly. The workforce is improved and their wards safety is ensured. The school service to community is boasted and character building is ensured. The children would be encourage to develop at their own pace, interest and capabilities. This research would open up to parents some glories involved in educating their children at ECCE.
Methodology: The research methodology used attitude test to investigate the responses of parents towards their perception ECCE acceptability in the Municipality of Kano. The data instrument has been used over a period of time, the instrument used was attitude rating scale.
Results: It is our expectation that ECCE children’s abilities in the three domains; literacy, numeracy and accuracy and skills acquisition would be exceptionally good compared with those whom have not undergone such centers, that is to say they joined school system at the age of six or seven. Likewise those children are expected to uplift their capabilities and talents up to tertiary levels or they may open a trade of their interest. Their academic capability made it easy for teachers to facilitate learning in a convenient way. Their parents benefits in the increase of daily bread. The prospects of ECCE in policy making would be given much consideration and assistance to operative fully and machineries required to improve their services and operations would be regarded as top priority to all, parents, teachers and the government.
Recommendation: In order to render more efficient and effective role of parents in Municipality Area the study would like to make recommendations and suggestions. These are as follows;
1. To the Government: Government as the runner of schools as well as policy formulator has it is own role to contribute to words the success of the children. This can be done by allowing parents to take part in providing all the necessary requirement for the development of their children especially 0 – 5 years old. There should be sensitization/public enlightment team to make the people acquaint themselves with new development in the new NCE programme that prioritize grassroots knowledge through ECCE centers. Assisting providing nutrition food to supplement parents feeding style.
2. To Teachers: They should recognize the importance of their field and to work hard for optimum development of the pupils.
3. To Parent: They should know the important of up of performance of their children
Public interest Statement: The findings of this research is to bring into light the harmonised ECCE centres and the day care operations. This findings is also intended to encourage more patronage of the centres as grassroots foundation for sound moral lifelong educational foundation which moulds and shape future youth of tomorrow.
