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    A Study of Pre – School Crayon Work (Case Study of Okodee Nursery School, U.S.T)
    (1990-09-07) Bosompem, Alexander Boapem
    Education for the young child starts right from birth and its home and community try as much as possible to achieve a desirable, goal in preparing the young child’s mind body and soul for school education. The necessity of this preparation has appropriate resulted in the establishment of pre-schooling institutions. These institutions basically help the children to acquire some if not all, of the required skills for formal education. These basic skills may include visual and auditory perceptions which underlie reading, verbal language, spatial and temporal orientation, general information, familiarity with books, toys, games and the development of sustained interest, curiosity and creativity, there also must be the attempt to engage the child as an active participant in the learning process rather than a passive recipient of information. In an attempt to facilitate the learning process in pre-school children, an organized curriculum must be provided and followed in order to establish a good base for the demand of the more complex experiences of school education.A good and dynamic pre – school curriculum will not only attempt to give the young child the antecedent preparations for formal education but also serve as a foundation upon which colleges for an intensive training of teachers and personnel for pre – schools could be set up. However, despite the realization of the importance of pre – schools and the consequent setting up of these, it is rather discouraging to note that very little is being done to improve the standards of existing pre – schools in terms of curriculum to be used, trained teachers, attendants and textbooks Furthermore, in spite of the universality of certain aspects of some human culture, certain situations are peculiar to particular societies and therefore evaluating a people with tools far removed from their set-up will not yield and better conclusion. Hence the necessities of assessing the people their own environment using the right system approach. It is for the eradication of these lapses in the pre –school education that has prompted this attempt to provide information on Ghanaian pre – school art, compare these with existing finding to throw more light on some aspects of pre – school creative activity. This will help curriculum planners to design suitable art programmes for pre – school education as well as help nursery school teachers to understand at this age can do with crayons.During these early stages in the development of the child there is very little verbal expression. Therefore teachers of such children do not find it very easy relating effectively with them. It can be accepted then that children’s drawings are therefore a means of expressing their ideas, thinking and potentialities. There is therefore the need to value, appreciate and encourage such art. Many of institutions are scattered all over Ghana. Among them is the Okodee Nursery, located at 60 Okodee on U.S.T campus. The school was established in 1980 by Mrs. Irene Abu primarily to cater for children of U.S.T staff members. Initially only two children were enrolled in the school. They were later joined by six others with the number increasing to twenty-five a year later. Presently the school has seventy – five children registered. In 1983 a permanent structure was put up to house the children. In addition to this space for a playground and other essential facilities were provided. The school started with on teacher and assistant but now there are three teachers and an assistant for the three stages or classes. Like other Ghanaian pre – schools there is no planned syllabus and curriculum that is followed in educating the children. However their programmes include teaching numbers and alphabets, speech training, rhymes, story telling, jig-saw, puzzles and art. The school was redistricted with the Ministry of education in 1986. Some of the first products of the school are now in schools like Mfantsipim and Wesley Girls Secondary School.
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    A suggested art syllabus for nursery school
    (1991) Bosompem, Alexander Boapem
    Though the integration of art into the activities of the nursery school helps in providing an all - round education involving the cognitive, effective and psychomotor domains of learning during formal education, the actual classroom experience that children go through shows that the art programme being used in the nursery school in Ghana is not adequately organized to enhance learning and in most nursery schools does not exist at all. This prompted a research to find out the type of art syllabus being used in the nursery school, analyse its content and then propose an art syllabus which will be consistent with the general objectives of nursery education in the country. The descriptive and analytical methods of research were used to collect compile and analyse data for possible solutions of the problem. The first chapter of the study is an introduction to the problem and its related issues. Chapter two is devoted to the available literature related to child art. Such related literature was reviewed and compiled to throw light on the previous work that has been carried out by educators on the work The population for this study and the general procedure embarked upon to carry tile research through is elaborated in chapter three, giving the sources of the data collected and how it was gathered. The art programme being used by the nursery school was then evaluated; finding out its consequent effects on the other art related activities of the nursery school. This was taken care of in chapter four. Chapter five dilates upon the nursery school child and art. It explains the purposes that art should serve in nursery education. In chapter six of the study, the results of the research, analysis and interpretation have been compiled. The summary, conclusion and recommendations arising from the study have been noted down in the final chapter of this write-up. The author has been able to come out with a suggested art syllabus for nursery school which could be used effectively by both the professional and untrained nursery teachers to achieve better results.