Planting Values through Character Education for Early Childhood

Enhancing Quality Education for Transformation of Character and Values through Social Studies Education

The Nigerian educational system is based on the objectives that the system should be able to build a free, just and egalitarian society and a united, strong and self reliant nation among others. Achievement of these objectives depends largely on the quality of education given to the citizens. To develop capacity to learn, acquire knowledge and skills that are essential for transformation of ind...

Early Childhood Education Programns

H T ead Start is a preschool program for disadvantaged children which aims to improve their skills so that they can begin schooling on an equal footing with their more advantaged peers. Begun in 1965 as part of PresidentJohnson's "War on Poverty," Head Start now serves over 800,000 children in predominantly part-day programs, almost 50 percent of eligible three and four year-old poor children (...

Early Childhood Education Programs

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Improving social competence through character education.

Character education is supposed to meet early adolescents' need (i.e., eighth and ninth graders) for strengthening social competence. Moreover, adolescents' engagement in character education is integral to their learning from the education. The engagement and deficit in social competence are therefore plausible conditions for the effectiveness of character education in promoting social competen...

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