Early Childhood Education and the Development of Behaviour at Nursery Level in Rwanda

Abstract: The effects of early childhood education on the development of behaviour at Nursery levels in Rwanda as a social safety to a bright future, has not been popular in developing countries as part of the skills developed in achieving a holistic child.The specific objectives which guide this study were: to evaluate the extent to which the teachers are involved in the implementation of early childhood education at nursery level in Gasabo District, to examine the relationship between teachers involvement in the implementation of early childhood education and behaviour development at nursery level in Rwanda in Gasabo District in Rwanda. The significance of this study will be provision of general knowledge towards the effect of early childhood education on the development of behavior at nursery level in Gasabo District in Rwanda. This study used correlation research design in order to determine the effect of early childhood education on behavior development in nursery levels in Rwanda. The population sample size was 92 respondents. Questionnaires and guided interview were used as data collection instruments where descriptive statistics and regression analysis were used for quantitative data analysis, Karl Pearson correlation coefficient was used to establish relationship between variables while regression analysis was used to check the effect of early childhood education on behaviour development. The findings have shown that 69.78 percent from early childhood education teachers that teachers’ involvement in the educational goal setting is effective towards the implementation of early childhood education. The researcher revealed that there is a significance high degree of positive correlation between teachers’ involvement in Early Childhood Education implementation and behaviour development at nursery level where Pearson coefficient of correlation states the correlation (r) of 0.580 with the p-value=0.000