Date Posted: 9/26/2012 6:26:35 AM
Posted By: ombaba Membership Level: Gold Total Points: 1110
Early childhood development education is the first formal socialization agent that a child will encounter. It is a crucial phase in a child's social, psychological, spiritual, intellectual, and mental development process. Due to a lack of clear policy direction from the government, and little investment in the same by the public sector; the private sector has taken the cue and rolled out many centres for ECDE. This essential service has gone through a kind of monopolization from the private sector with over 80% of the providers are private.Because of this lack of investment by the government, ECDE is faced with issues to deal with access, equity, quality and relevance of the programmes.Specifically, the programmes face challenges in funding and hence cannot run smoothly, low participation rates as a result of affordability, poor policy formulation which results in a poor un-cordinated system. There is also a lack of a proper curriculum content and thus providers are forced to improvise thus resulting in disparities. Finally there is an inadequate number of qualified educators. Many providers of ECDE services will employ services of relatives and friends to be the educators, these relatives and friends may not be suitably qualified as ECDE educators.
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