SUPERVISION OF EARLY CHILD EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN NIGERIA: PROBLEMS AND SUGGESTIONS
Abstract
The article discusses the problems facing the supervision of the early child education programme in Nigeria. Secondary data was used to support the points raised in the article. The adopted secondary source of data collection obtained from print material and online publication by recognized institutions and individual author. Supervision of the early child education programme in Nigeria faces the following problems which include; poor funding of supervision, inadequate professional supervisors, and inadequate materials for supervision. Others are lack of social capital, poor capacity development of supervisors, insecurity and distance. To solve these challenges, this article recommends: that the government should increase the funding of supervision, employment of more professional supervisors, provision of adequate social capital, provision of adequate supervision materials, constant training and retraining programme for supervisors and provision security agent for supervisors.
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