Promoting Green Early Child Care Development and Education (ECCDE) Centre in Nigeria through Adequate Funding
Keywords:
Green Programme, Early Child Care Development and Education (ECCDE) Centre, Child, Early ChildAbstract
The paper discussed the importance of providing adequate funds for the development of green programmes in early childhood care education centres in Nigeria. The paper is a position paper. Secondary data were used in the paper. The sources of the data were online publications and print resources. The study showed that adequate funding of green programmes in the early childhood care education centres in Nigeria will aid the development of greening early childhood care education centres in Nigeria. The adequate funding of green programmes in the early childhood care education centres in Nigeria will lead to the development of green infrastructure facilities, green curricula for early childhood care education centres, green instructional resources and implementation of green programmes in the early childhood care education centres in Nigeria. Based on this discovery, the paper hereby recommends the provision of special funds for the development of green programmes in Nigerian schools especially the early childhood care education centres in Nigeria.
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