Parents' Attitudes towards Government Involvement in Pre-school education in kwara state

Abstract

This research study focused on examining the attitudes of parents towards government involvement in kindergarten in Kwara state adopting descriptive research design with 250 parents as sampled population for the study, 124 males and 126 females, in three local government areas of kwara state: ilorin west, ilorin south, ilorin east LGA using simple random sampling technique. with the aid of a researcher's constructed questionnaire, the data was collected from the respondents which was analysed with statistical packages for social science (SPSS, 22.0). Frequency counts, percentage distribution, mean and standard deviation were used to analyse the data demographic information and the research question respectively while ANOVA was used to test the hypothesis generated. The researcher found out that attitude of the parents towards government involvement in kindergarten is negative in Kwara state, and there is no significant difference in the attitudes of parents towards government involvement in kindergarten based on their educational qualification (0.53>0.054). It was recommended that, parents should endeavour to develop positive attitudes towards government involvement in kindergarten so as to support the success of the programme while government should make necessary provisions for the smooth running of kindergarten programme both at the federal and state level of the country.