IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LEADERSHIP RESEARCH (JPSLR )

E-ISSN 2504-883X
P-ISSN 2695 2432
VOL. 11 NO. 5 2025
DOI: 10.56201/jpslr.vol.11.no5.2025.pg153.163

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Teachers’ Perspective of Transforming Teacher Education and Teacher Capacity for the 21 Century Pre-Primary Classrooms in Rivers State

Victor Ojorka AKOR, PhD, Ibrahim Opeyemi ABDULWAHEED, PhD, Joseph Ojoniko AMEH, PhD

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Abstract

The study investigated teachers’ perspective of transforming teacher education and teacher capacity for the 21st century pre-primary classrooms in Rivers State. Two research questions were answered by the study which was a descriptive survey design with a population of 100 pre-primary classroom teachers in Etche, Rivers State. A sample size of 50 pre-primary classroom teachers was drawn using the proportionate stratified random sampling technique. The instrument for data collection was a 24-item questionnaire which was validated by three experts and it gave a reliability coefficient of 0.77 which was obtained using Cronbach Alpha method. The data collected were analyzed with mean and standard deviation while the hypothesis was tested with z- test. The results showed that there are needs to be met by education stakeholders that would bring about transformation in the 21st pre-primary classrooms and that there is need for regular capacity building programmes for pre-primary classroom teachers. Based on the findings, the following recommendations were made, pre-primary teachers should be willing and ready to learn whenever opportunity is provided for capacity building to boost their competence, other education stakeholders should partner with institutions to support facilities improvement and upgrade in higher education where pre-primary classroom teachers are train for enhanced output, the government should live up to her promise of being in full quality control, training and retraining of teachers for better pre-primary classroom output in the schools in Rivers State etc.

keywords:

Transforming teacher education, teacher capacity, pre-primary classroom

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