{"id":165147,"date":"2022-01-29T19:52:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T14:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=165147"},"modified":"2022-02-10T16:47:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T11:17:22","slug":"early-childhood-care-and-education-ecce-anganwadis-should-provide-early-childhood-care-and-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/early-childhood-care-and-education-ecce-anganwadis-should-provide-early-childhood-care-and-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE): Anganwadis should provide early childhood care and education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News:\u00a0<\/strong>National Education Policy<\/a> highlighted the importance of Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) for young child\u2019s early cognitive, social, and emotional development. But still, National Family Health Survey-5<\/a> found that only 13.6% of children enrolled in pre-primary schools.<\/p>\n

What are the problems with the existing system?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Overwork on anganwadis:\u00a0<\/strong>They have more focus on health and nutrition. Multiple administrative duties also leave little time to anganwadis to focus on ECCE.<\/p>\n

Inadequate care: <\/strong>Present system best serves the age group of 3-6 years, but ignores infants and toddlers.<\/p>\n

The economic condition of parents: <\/strong>A child\u2019s early learning begins at birth, initially through stimulation, play, interactions, non-verbal and verbal communication, and through observation etc. But, due to a lack of parental awareness complemented with the daily stresses of poverty, disadvantaged households, Anganwadis are unable to provide an early learning environment to their children.<\/p>\n

Inappropriate teaching: <\/strong>It is seen that mostly low-cost pre-schools have a developmentally inappropriate teaching approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read here:\u00a0Need of Early Child Development<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What steps can be initiated for a successful implementation of ECCE?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

First,\u00a0<\/strong>there is a need to design and implement a meaningful activity-based ECCE framework<\/strong> that recognises the ground realities of that area.<\/p>\n

Second,\u00a0<\/strong>Routine tasks of Anganwadi workers should be reduced and non-ICDS work, such as surveys, to be removed altogether. Also, proper training<\/strong> should be provided to anganwadis so that they can be redesignated as childcare workers and handle routine work.<\/p>\n

Third,\u00a0<\/strong>Anganwadi hours can be extended<\/strong> by at least three hours, with an increase in their present remuneration, with the additional time devoted to ECCE. A similar model has already been adopted in Karnataka state.<\/p>\n

Fourth,\u00a0<\/strong>All ICDS functionaries need to be fully trained in ECCE. Also, there is a need to bring the policy reforms<\/strong> both at the centre and state level to prioritise and monitor ECCE.<\/p>\n

Fifth, <\/strong>Anganwadi workers should be asked to closely engage with the parents<\/strong>, as they play a crucial role in the cognitive development of young children. Low-cost affordable teaching materials should be designed and made accessible to parents.<\/p>\n

Sixth,\u00a0<\/strong> ICDS should supply age-appropriate activity-based play material<\/strong> in adequate quantities regularly. Anganwadi workers should also encourage utilising them in a liberal manner.<\/p>\n

Last,<\/strong> states should invest in research and training<\/strong> to support early childhood education.<\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0<\/strong>This post is based on the article ”Anganwadis should provide early childhood care and education”\u00a0<\/strong>published in the\u00a0Indian Express <\/strong>on\u00a028th January 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News:\u00a0National Education Policy highlighted the importance of Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) for young child\u2019s early cognitive, social, and emotional development. But still, National Family Health Survey-5 found that only 13.6% of children enrolled in pre-primary schools. What are the problems with the existing system?\u00a0 Overwork on anganwadis:\u00a0They have more focus on health and… Continue reading Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE): Anganwadis should provide early childhood care and education<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-165147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}