Early Childhood Education in Rural India

Early Childhood Education in Rural India

Author Name : Sarthi Bhavsar, Prof. Bhavana Khivsara, Prof. Swati Sinha, Manasvi Thakare, Rucha Yeole, Swapnali Surwanshi

ABSTRACT

 Early Childhood Education (ECE) proves a strong foundation for lifelong learning for children aged 0 to 6. This education focuses on the holistic development of children by developing their five development areas. Understanding the importance of this worldwide government and many private and non-profit organizations jumped into area of ECE to provide a quality preschool education to the children. In this paper, we focus specifically on the India scenario in the area of ECE. Like anywhere in the world Indian government is also making great efforts to provide free preschool education in each corner of India by initializing the concept of Anganwadi from October 1975. Still, so many children in rural India are not getting proper preschool education. Here we provide a comprehensive survey of the current scenario of delivering preschool education in Rural India. The paper will also present and discuss the problem faced by government, rural people, local women entrepreneurs, teachers, and schools in Rural India. We will also discuss the technical solutions and best-practice guidelines we can adopt for delivering quality early childhood education in Rural India.

Keywords: - qualityearly childhood education, 5 development areas, holistic development, education policy