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Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies (JETERAPS) (Vol 1 No 1)
Article Title: Child Friendly Pedagogy for Sustainable Human Capacity Development in Nigerian Primary Schools
by Cecilia Amuche Ekemezie and Ezeh Stella Chinasa

Abstract:
The study investigated Child Friendly Pedagogy as a strategy for sustainable human capacity development of a child. The population of the study was all the primary school teachers in Anambra state numbering 10,470. Stratified simple random sampling technique was used in selecting 10% of the population, numbering 1,045 teachers. Three research questions were formulated and two hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance guided the study. Researcher-developed questionnaire instrument named “Child Friendly Pedagogy and sustainable human capacity development” was used for data collection. Data collected were analyzed using mean and ranking. The instrument was validated by two experts while reliability of the instrument was done using Crombach alpha statistic. The reliability index of 0.82 gotten indicated that the instrument was reliable. Findings revealed among others, that Child Friendly Pedagogy model plays a very significant role in sustainable human capacity development of a child, most teachers in both rural and urban areas do not apply all the attributes of this model in teaching and learning etc. It was recommended that government should organize seminars, workshops and conferences for teachers on the importance of Child Friendly Pedagogy in the capacity development of a child etc.
Keywords: child friendly pedagogy, strategy, sustainable, human capacity development
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