Thesis(MPH.) -- University of Limpopo, 2020 / Background: The National Norms and Standards are aimed at providing regulatory
minimum norms and standards to guide early childhood development centres in the
provision of a range of services. It is therefore important for early childhood
development centres to comply to regulations and failing that the health and safety of
children is compromised. It has been observed by the researcher that compliance
among early childhood development early childhood development in the Mankweng
area is a challenge, and therefore an investigation on the general compliance was
necessary.
Objectives: The objectives of the study were to explore and describe compliance to
National Norms and Standards among early childhood development centres’ in
Mankweng area, Limpopo Province.
Methods: The study used a qualitative approach and applied a phenomenological
research design. Both observation and semi-structured interviews methods of data
collection were used respectively. Purposive and Convenience sampling methods
were used to select the study participants and all of them were workers employed in
the selected early childhood development centres in Mankweng. Participants
included both male and female workers, and the sample size of 16 was determined
by data saturation. Data was analysed using the Teschs’ eight steps of data
analysis.
Results: It was established that there are existing personal hygiene and
environmental practices challenges at different early childhood development centres.
The study further discovered that there was inadequate provision of classrooms and
deprivation of child developmental activities as well as challenges regarding the
quality of classrooms and settings.
Conclusion: The findings revealed that the early childhood development centres did
not meet the physical requirements suggested in the norms and standards. These
include the visible and tangible aspects toys for both indoor and outdoor use; the
human resources capacity and the investments in capacity development of staff; the
type of infrastructure; and the activity-based learning and stimulation for children.
Furthermore, crèches play a very important role in child care and protection
consequently regulatory provisions should be fully enforced including compliance
amongst these centres in Mankweng and in South Africa respectively.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:ul/oai:ulspace.ul.ac.za:10386/3602 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Makgoba, Manyabela Norah |
| Contributors | Kekana, M. P., Ntuli, T. S. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 56 Leaves |
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