SITUATION ANALYSIS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AT CHAR AREA SCHOOL IN BANGLADESH AND WAYS TO IMPROVEMENT

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The main purpose of the study was to know the overall situation of early childhood education in char area of Bangladesh. For this purpose, two government pre-primary schools, two BRAC pre-primary schools and two ASA education center at char area in Manikganj district of Bangladesh were studied by following a qualitative research approach. The curriculum document was studied; classes were being observed and interview of the supervisors, HTs and parents were taken to learn about the curriculum, teaching-learning processes, benefits, problems, challenges and ways to improving the problems of early childhood education in char area. The key findings of the analysis were a) the scenario of early childhood education in government primary schools and NGOs pre-primary schools at char area in Bangladesh was not satisfactory; b) there were some evidences of applying various activities of the curriculum but the time allocation to implement the activities was not enough; c) the number of teachers was also limited and they did not have sufficient professional training on early childhood education; d) the class size was medium in the pre-primary school but their teaching learning activities was not good; e) playground of the studied schools were small and the pre-primary students could not play at the same time when the other students play in the ground and f) the poor and illiterate parents were not aware of the need and importance of preparing their children for primary education Bangladesh has pursued different types of policies and intervention to provide access to quality primary education. Early childhood education was one of the important interventions to achieve quality education but it was less emphasized. The study exposed that the teachers and parents could understand the importance of early childhood education and it should spread all over the country.

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