Volume 14, 2025

Stakeholders' Involvement and Awareness on the Choice of Early Childhood Education in Federal College of Education (Technical) Omoku in River State

Ifeyemi Alaere,EMBERRU, Esther Chinedu,WORDU & Rebecca Eke-Abasi, EFFIONG

Abstract

This study is designed to investigate the inuence of Stakeholders awareness involvement on the choice of Early
Childhood Education in Federal College of Education (Technical) Omoku, Rivers State. Three research
questions were used to obtain the ndings of the study. Descriptive research design was adopted for the study.
The population of the study consisted of all 856 students in Federal College of Education (Technical) Omoku.
Sample random sampling technique was used to select 5 ve students from 30 departments making the sample
sizeof 150 respondents. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire titled Stakeholders
Involvement and the Choice of Early Childhood Education in Federal College of Education, Omoku
(SITCECEO) which was administered using descriptive statistic of mean and standard deviation. The ndings
of the study revealed that the stakeholders' awareness and involvements inuence students' choice of studying
Early Childhood Care and Education in Federal College of Education (Technical) Omoku, Rivers State.
Therefore, it was recommended that government, parents and community be involved in the awareness of the
programme thereby creating a standard and better objective.

Keywords

Stakeholders, Government, Community, Parents, Early Childhood Care and Education

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