Play Way as a Kindergarten Pedagogy: Perceived Effectiveness of Pre-Primary Level Teachers

Abstract

Aim of the Study: The current study was designed to investigate the teachers’ perceived effectiveness of play way method. Objectives of the study were to find out the effectiveness of play-way method as a method of teaching at primary level.

Methodology: The present study was descriptive in nature. Keeping in view the main objective of the research, quantitative tool was used for data collection and data analysis. The questionnaire was used to collect data from teachers from different schools including both private and Govt. sectors. 5X form were also used for some of the items. The questionnaire was developed after analyzing the intense literature review. The population consisted on both male and female teachers of primary schools of district Multan. Total 66 schools were randomly selected out of 940 from Multan district. Thus, total sample of teachers was three hundred and sixty (n=360). The quantitative data was analyzed through statistical package for social sciences. Different statistical techniques were computed. Variance simple mean and percentages were. Data analysis mainly focused to answer the research questions.

Findings: It was drawn from the study that majority of the teachers were strongly agreed that play way method focalize holistic development of students along with emotional development and amusement. The similar findings of this research were merged and differences were minutely studied. Afterwards the results of present study were compared to official documents and previous researches to maintain coherence.