Quality assurance policies of Kindergarten Education in Karachi and their implementation
Keywords:
Kindergarten Education, Early childhood education in Karachi, and Policies for Kindergarten schoolsAbstract
This study revolves around the recent policies for Kindergarten education in Karachi. In this study the considerations regarding the policies and their implementations in Karachi city for Kindergarten institutions has been made. Also the level of the current Kindergarten education in Karachi in different regions of the city has been considered. For this purpose the literature review has been done from various sources. Then according to the requirement of the research the qualitative research has been adopted. The selection qualitative research has been more specified to phenomenological research method. Thus, the interviews from the founders of the different Kindergarten institutes have been done form different regions. By these interviews the conclusions have been made that there are no specific bodies from government providing any particular policies for initializing the Kindergarten Institute, but for checking of implementation of their basic requirements there is a process, which somehow is not applicable everywhere in the city. Some considerations also have been made from the founders regarding the current policies and implementations.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10316805
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