Identification of Effective Strategies for the Enhancement of ECE Enrollment ratio: A Selected Study of District Kamber Shahdadkot and Khairpur Mir’s schools.

Abstract Early Childhood Education (ECE) is a form of education which has been introduced in Pakistan from 3-8years old children till the beginning of formal education. The study is aimed at to explore the effective strategies in order to intensify the enrollment of ECE. The descriptive survey study was conducted at both public and private sector schools. It is to enhance the enrollment of ECE children. Head masters, ECE teachers, and students of the locality formed population of the study. Random sampling technique was made to generalize the results of sample. After the collection of data from two Questionnaires first from Head teachers and second from ECE teachers’ data were analyzed in quantitative methods through the SPSS 23 version. As the conclusion is to enhance enrollment of students, has been projected to address the real elements of enrollment in order to increase it at the rapid pace. The main concern of this research study deal the issues of lesser enrollment at ECE level shortage of well trained teachers, lack of material, malnutrition, poverty, and health pandemic COVID-19,  to specify the strategies for enhancement of enrollment ratio of ECE students such as integral formation, didactic activities, professional performance of head teachers and teachers, immediate response to pandemic and manipulation of mass, digital media, reconstruction of connectivity between stakeholders, separation of ECE teachers with integration of innovative activities such as STEM and STEAM, ICT for holistic development of children.   Keywords: Early Childhood Education, issues and challenges Identification of strategies, Enhancement of enrollment.