Early Childhood Education in Africa

Type Journal Article - Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences
Title Early Childhood Education in Africa
Author(s)
Volume 5
Issue 20
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2014
Page numbers 1403-1412
URL http://www.mcser.org/journal/index.php/mjss/article/viewFile/3875/3792
Abstract
In brief we examined Early Childhood Education in the participating African Union countries on the basis of expansion,
enrolment, teachers, rural, and gender distribution. In the last three decades, Early Childhood Education has undergone
tremendous changes in terms of growth and development. More schools for Early Childhood Education have been constructed
in villages, rural and urban areas. Such construction has been in response to the demand of the people for such provision. The
sample consisted of 15 African Union countries linguistically using Arabic, English and French. The data collected was based
on a questionnaire administered to senior officials in the Department/Ministry of Education in each one of the participating
countries. In addition, documents were solicited from the Departments for statistical purposes.

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