Teachers' Perception towards the Establishment and Effectiveness of Early Childhood Education

Abstract

Education is a systemic framework for building the cornerstone of civilization. It is animportant factor in any country's success worldwide. Early Childhood Education (ECE) is a branch ofeducational philosophy that refers to education for young children up to the age of eight years. The mainobjective of this study was to find out teachers’ perceptions of this ECE setup. A teacher is a part andparcel of our education system and any policy can’t succeed without satisfaction. The population of thisstudy was teachers involved in early childhood education set up in the district Nankana Sahib. Whereas,308 teachers were selected as a sample using a stratified sampling technique. The data was collectedthrough instruments by survey method. On the whole, it was found that most of the statements on thequestionnaire had a mean score higher than 3 which shows teachers’ positive perception of the ECEsetup. There was a significant difference in the perception of teachers based on gender. This study isbeneficial for the development of early childhood education.