Utilization of Resources for the Implementation of Early Childhood Education and Care Curriculum in Pre-primary Schools

The study examined the utilization of resources for the implementation of early childhood education and care curriculum in pre-primary schools. Descriptive survey research design was used. Two research questions and two null hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance guided the study. The population of the study consisted of 487 public pre-primary school teachers teaching in the six education zones in the seventeen local government areas of Enugu State. The sample for the study was 195 pre-primary school teachers. A questionnaire with reliability coefficient of 0.82 was used for data collection. Mean and standard deviation were used in answering the research questions while t-test was used to analyze the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Results revealed that for effective teaching, some of the available resources were underutilized while some were not utilized at all. The study concluded that poor utilization of human and material resources in public pre-primary schools implies that the early childhood education and care curriculum is not being well implemented in public pre-primary schools. Thus, the researchers recommended that government should pay more attention to pre-primary schools in their states by ensuring that all the necessary materials needed for this level of education are adequately provided and well utilized.

Child Education and Care, Utilization, Human and Material Resource, Curriculum Implementation, Pre-primary Schools.

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