Parents' and teachers' attitude towards young children's play
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Teaching aids , teachers , child development , games , children , children's playSynopsis
This study sought to find out parents' and teachers' attitude towards young children's play. Two hypotheses and twelve research questions were used to investigate the relationship that exists between gender, location, . occupation, level of education and the attitude of parents' and teachers' towards young children's play. The study design was correlational. A
multistage sampling method was used to select 744 parents and 144 teachers in 6 primary schools and 4 nursery schools in 2 local government areas of former Abia State. A questionnaire was used for data·collection. Frequencies, Means, Standard Deviations, Spearman Correlation Coefficient product and multiple regression were used to analyse the data. Among the findings are that: 1 Parents and teachers have a negative attitude towards young children's play. 2 There is a significant relationship between parents' gender and their attitude towards young children's play. In the case of teachers there was no
significant relationship in all the variables. It was recommended, among others, that parents and teachers should find time to participate in young children's play. Also the Federal and State Ministry of Education, the Loe.al Education Authority, Nigeria Union of Teachers and World Organisation of Early Children Education (OMEP) should organise conferences, seminars and workshops for sensitizing training parents and teachers to the role of play in the overall development of children. The implications for teacher education programmes were discussed.
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