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Title: Teachers’ roles on creating child-friendly learning environment in pre-school
Authors: Jesuiya, Dilani
Keywords: Teachers’ roles
Child-friendly learning environment
Pre-school
Issue Date: 6-Dec-2022
Publisher: Faculty of Arts and Culture South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil.
Citation: 11th South Eastern University International Arts Research Symposium on “Coping with Current Crisis for the Sustainable Development with Partners in Excellence” on 06th December 2022. South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil, Sri Lanka. pp. 41-53.
Abstract: Creating child-friendly schools is an international movement that encourages schools to operate in the best interests of children. Child-friendly schools not only help children realize their right to basic education but also provide quality educational experiences. A child-friendly school is child-focused and child-centered. These schools promote inclusion and help children learn what they need to learn while teaching them how to learn. They ensure a healthy and safe learning environment, eliminate gender stereotypes, and encourage child participation. Ministries of education, development agencies, and schools should all understand and support the basic characteristics of a child-friendly school and work toward incorporating these characteristics into all child-learning environments. This study aims at identifying the child-friendly learning environment at preschool by exploring the teachers’ roles and perspectives towards it. For this, five teachers were purposively selected from the five Pre-schools schools in Batticaloa Manumai north. Their perspectives about the child-friendly learning environment were recorded through face-to-face semistructured interviews. The collected data were analyzed by using a qualitative approach. The study found that there is a vast gap between outsiders’ views and the reality of schools regarding child-friendly learnercentered learning environments. In such a situation, the teacher’s role seems to be dynamic and creative to create a child-friendly learning environment at school.
URI: http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/6849
ISSN: 978-624-5736-64-5
978-624-5736-37-9
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