Observation of Early Childhood Pedagogical Practices in Public Primary Schools

Abstract

The study was conducted to explore the early childhood pedagogical practices in public schools. The study was exploratory, and the population of the study was all the ECE teachers of private primary schools in four districts of the Sargodha Division, i.e. Sargodha, Khushab, Mianwali and Bhakkar. A total of 102 ECE schools in four districts of the Sargodha division were selected through convenience sampling, including 23 male and 79 female ECE teachers. An observation Schedule for ECE pedagogical practices was developed and validated through experts’ opinions. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to analyze the data. Major conclusions were that majority of ECE teachers were practicing a good level of pedagogical practices, whereas male and female ECE teachers were equivalent in ECE pedagogical practices. It is recommended that Educational authorities may strictly implement and supervise the public schools' policy of ECE students' healthy social and emotional development through “Maar nahi Piyar”.