Ikoro, Stanley Ibekwe, (Ph.D.)
&
Onwe Ignatius, (Ph.D.)
Ebonyi State College Of Education Ikwo,
Ebonyi State Nigeria.
Abstract.
This study was on effect of play teaching strategy on skills development of children in early childhood
education (ECE) in Ebonyi State .The descriptive survey design was used, and the sample size was 304
teachers, made up of 62 males and 242 females. Four research questions and two hypotheses guided the study, while four points Likert scale questionnaire was developed by the researchers which had a grand reliability index of 0.89 and was used for data collection. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while the Pearson product moment correlation coefficient was used to test the hypotheses. Based on the findings of the study, the researches recommend among other things that; The government, school management and the community should jointly provide adequate materials and conducive play environment that will promote play teaching strategy for the promotion of literacy, numeracy and social development of the child
Keywords: Early childhood development, childhood education, play teaching strategies and skill development.
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