Management of preschooling educational institutions: an evaluation

Normally, pre-schools are known as those institutions where children between the age group of 2years to maximum 7years come for playful environment. Jean Piaget, Frobel, Maria Montessori all the famous psychologists are the great contributors of playful learning. But parents often complain that their children are under different kinds of pressure like home work, unit test, term test, besides activity class. There is a lot of peer pressure among parents also. Parents are compelled to feel that they are depriving their children unless they are putting them in a high-pressure environment. It is against the nature of child psychology as the researches have proved that stress/pressure on children during early childhood decreases self-esteem as well as confidence level. Psychological pressure on children impacts negatively in mental health development also. The very essential element for sound mental health and all round development of children is the play and playful environment. Therefore, present paper aims at – (a) to assess the playful environment in the preschools (b) to study the management behaviour of pre-schools for the development of children. On the basis of the objectives, descriptive survey method has been applied and a self-prepared interview schedule has been made ready to collect relevant data from 09 pre-school educational institutes (Privately managed) in different areas of Guwahati. Data have been collected from 09 Centre Heads of pre-schools and Parents of Children studying in those schools. After analysis and interpretation of data, findings will help to reveal what is the actual playful environment that is prevailing in all these pre-schools in Guwahati? Are they really developing the children in right track in society?