Abstract:
The reality of educational development of people or nations is getting it right at the foundational levels, it has been said many times, and it is of course well documented in many literatures. This is because it is well known that a poor foundation structure will always cause problems for the building and its owners. Over the past 50 years, the care and teaching of young children outside of the house has evolved into a downward extension of school in industrialized nations, but it is still a relatively new project in Nigeria. The National Policy on Education contains provisions that provide legal support for the adoption of this new level of education. The traditional kindergarten setting, with abundant of room and time for unstructured play and discovery, art and music, developing social skills, and learning to enjoy learning, that the majority of people in Nigeria recall from their own childhoods, has mostly vanished. There is no question that the implementation of a year of preschool education in Nigeria has a number of difficulties, but the main one is that many of the caregivers and teachers in ECE at the pre-primary school level in Nigeria lack professional qualifications.
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