A study of factors conducive to the development of children studying in preprimary schools

Abstract

This thesis discusses the factors that affect and support the development of newlinechildren studying in preprimary school. Preprimary school or kindergarten is an newlineearly childhood program in which children combine learning with play through a newlinemethod used by professionally trained masters. Preschool is important for the newlinefoundation of learning and prepares a child for the next formal school where newlinethings would be more academic. Preprimary education comprise of three years i.e. newlinefrom the age of three to six years of child which includes nursery, Jr. K.G/ newlineL.K.G/U.K.G and Sr. K.G/ H.K.G. After this preprimary education, a child enters newlineinto primary education which is a first step of compulsory education. newlineIt has been well accepted by researchers and educationists that preprimary newlineeducation is vital to shape the entire life of a child. Therefore it would be newlineworthwhile to study the factors conducive to the development of preprimary newlinestudents. The main objectives of this research are (i) to study the physical, newlinecognitive and social development of children studying in urban and rural: govt. newlineand private preprimary schools (ii) to study the effect of curriculum, school newlineinfrastructure and teacher quality on the development of preschoolers and (iii) to newlinestudy the inter-relation between physical, cognitive and social development of newlinechildren studying in urban and rural; govt. and private preprimary schools. Null newlinehypothesis has been proposed for the study stating no relationship between the newlinevariables. newlineIn this research, a combination of three methods has been used. newlineExperimental method, survey method and observation method have been used newlineto complete the work. The population is the students studying in govt. and private newlinepreprimary schools of urban and rural areas of Kota district. Here in this research newlinestudy 250 students from 5 govt. and 5 private preprimary schools of urban areas newlineand 250 students from 5 govt. and 5 private preprimary schools of rural areas have newlinebeen selected randomly by lottery method.