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An Evaluation of Early Childhood Educators’ Knowledge of Their Professional Code of Conduct Rachael Ojima Agarry
Indonesian Journal of Multidiciplinary Research Vol 2, No 2 (2022): IJOMR: VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2, 2022
Publisher : Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI)

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.17509/ijomr.v2i2.44827

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Teachers of young children have precise responsibilities towards children and their families, colleagues at workplaces as well as the community. This study assessed how knowledgeable early childhood educators are in terms of their professional code of conduct. Four research questions were answered and three hypotheses were tested at a 0.05 level of significance. Two hundred (200) respondents were randomly sampled to participate in the study. A validated instrument tagged “ECE Professional Code Test” (ECEPCT) with a reliability coefficient of 0.73 was used to collect data for the study. Findings revealed that early childhood educators’ knowledge of their responsibilities towards the children, their families, and the community was low while the level of their knowledge of their responsibilities towards their colleagues was high. In addition, it was revealed that gender, academic qualification, and school type have no significant influence on early childhood educators’ knowledge of their professional code of conduct. Because of these outcomes, it was recommended that issues on professional ethics and code of conduct should be incorporated and emphasized during pre-service training of early childhood educators as well as during seminars and re-training of in-service caregivers/teachers. In addition, a handbook on professional ethics and code of conduct for early childhood educators should be made available and accessible to all caregivers and teachers of young children.
An Evaluation of The Status of Qualitative Research in Childhood Education Rachael Ojima Agarry; Eyiyemi Victoria Ogundele
Indonesian Journal of Multidiciplinary Research Vol 3, No 1 (2023): IJOMR: VOLUME 3, ISSUE 1, March 2023
Publisher : Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI)

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The need to evaluate the status of qualitative research, particularly in childhood education, is required. Four questions were answered and three hypotheses were tested. A mixed-method approach design was adopted in this research. The population of the study comprised all childhood education researchers from all the teacher training institutions in Kwara State, Nigeria. 58 researchers were purposively selected to participate in the study. A questionnaire and interview were used to collect the necessary data for the study. The outcome of the study revealed that the qualitative research method is rarely adopted for research related to childhood education. Also, time, secrecy, participants’ unwillingness, cost implication among others were identified as dilemmas to conducting qualitative research in childhood education in the State. The quality of qualitative research conducted in childhood education is on average. The ratio of quantitative research as against qualitative research conducted by childhood educators was found to be 1:8. In other words, there was a significant difference in the number of quantitative and qualitative research conducted. In addition, gender and academic qualification had no significant influence on childhood educators’ use of qualitative research methods. Thus, it was concluded that the status of qualitative research in childhood education in Kwara State, Nigeria is ranked low. Among the recommendations made are training and re-training of teacher trainers of childhood education on the benefits and how to use qualitative research methods.
Co-Authors Eyiyemi Victoria Ogundele