ANALYSIS OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: A CROSS SECTIONAL SURVEY OF AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR

The study was conducted to find out educational facilities provided to early childhood education in Azad Jammu & Kashmir. Descriptive research method was used for conducting the research. In descriptive research survey method was used for the collection of data from respondents. All two hundred sixty (260) teachers working in fifty-two (52) government primary schools of AJ&K were population of study. Universal sampling technique was used to select the sample from population. A questionnaire based on five-point Likert scale was used as research instrument to collect data from teachers. Questionnaire was consisted of educational facilities i.e., the indoor and outdoor educational facilities. Mean, frequency, and percentage were used for analysis of data. It was found that ECE teachers support the specific learning tasks to be carried out there. ECE teachers helps to lay the foundation for education for rest of a child's life. It is suggested that trained teachers may be hired for ECE children to enhance quality of ECE program in AJ&K. There may be equal educational infrastructure and chances available to provide equity of learning to students across the District Kotli.