GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

This study examined the role of foreign agencies in the development of early childhood education programmes in River South East Education zone. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. Two hundred and eighty-nine (289) teachers 189 Early Childhood Centres within the study area were purposively sampled. Three research questions and three hypotheses were formulated. The instrument for data collection was titled: “Foreign Agencies Role in Development of Early Childhood Education Programmes Questionnaire (FARDECEPQ)”. The reliability index of the instrument was 0.75. The mean and standard deviation were used to answer each research question. The independent sample t-test was used to test the three hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings from hypotheses one revealed a significant difference in the role of foreign agencies in the development of early childhood education programmes in urban and rural areas of the zone, depicting that these roles were not equally distributed across the zone. Hypotheses two and three revealed no significant difference in the development of early childhood education programmes in the areas. Based on these findings, it was recommended that the distribution of funds and infrastructural facilities from these agencies should be equitably distributed across the urban and rural areas of the zone. Furthermore, the role of the agencies in terms of supervision and training of teachers or caregivers should be improved across the zone. The agencies should also increase their roles and indigenous Government agencies should endeavor to pay their counterpart funds to attract these agencies implement these activities across this Education zone.

KEYWORDS: Foreign agencies, Development, Early childhood Education Programmes, River South East Education zone.