THE ROLE OF PRE-PRIMARY EDUCATION IN ENHANCING CHILDREN’S TOTAL DEVELOPMENT

Present modernization had brought about industrialization that made many parents to look for means of meeting their daily needs especially in this contemporary Nigeria. As a result, many parents cannot adequately nurture their children for better development. This paper examines the trends in preprimary education as a foundation for life-long learning for young children and the purpose for pre-primary education. Those areas of developmental domains of childhood are also identified such as physical developmental domain, social developmental domain, emotional developmental domain , cognitive developmental domain, language developmental domain that are said to enhance children’s total development of children through pre-primary education