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South Asian Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (SARJHSS)
Volume-3 | Issue-04
Original Research Article
Integration of Environmental and Health Safety Considerations in the Management of Early Childhood Care and Development Education in Rivers State
William-Yobo Charity Barine, Dr. U. J Nwogu
Published : Aug. 9, 2021
DOI : 10.36346/sarjhss.2021.v03i04.008
Abstract
The study examined integration of environmental and health safety considerations in the management of early childhood care and development education in Rivers State. The study used the descriptive survey design. Two research questions as well as two corresponding hypotheses guided the study. The population of the study comprised of all the 620 approved private early childhood care and development education centres in Rivers State, Nigeria. The stratified random sampling technique was used to draw up a sample of 347 head teachers, representing 56% of the population (110 urban and 237 rural head teachers as well as 215 experienced and 132 inexperienced head teachers. One instrument was used for collection of data for this study; ‘Integration of Safety Considerations Management of Early Childhood Care and Development Education Questionnaire. The face and content validity of the questionnaire were ensured, the reliability of the questionnaire was determined using Cronbach alpha statistics. The reliability co-efficients of 0.89 and 0.90 were obtained. Weighted criterion mean, weighted mean and standard deviation scores were used to answer the research questions while z-test was used to test hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The finding of the study shows that to a high extent environmental and health safety considerations are integrated in the management of early childhood care and development education in Rivers State. Further findings showed that there was no significant difference between means scores of the responses of teachers on the extent of integration of environmental and health safety considerations in the management of early childhood care and development education in Rivers State. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that proper evaluation of the curriculum in management of safety and health of early childhood care and development education should be taken seriously. Moreso, government and head teachers should endeavour to provide safety and health facilities in the schools for management of early childhood care and development education.

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