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Learning for a child takes place in many ways and the curriculum accords equal importance to what a child learns and the process by which he or she learns it. The curriculum recognises that the child should be an active agent in his or her own learning and that the child’s existing knowledge and environment experience should be the starting point for new knowledge. The school ethos, which includes the teacher and his or her relationship with the child, is viewed as being of paramount importance in the learning process and “it is the quality of teaching more than any thing else that determines the success of the child’s learning and development in school. This study hereby examines the dynamics or approaches of teaching and learning in early childhood education in Nigeria.