GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

The paper discusses the prospects and constraints of children’s learning in formal education settings in Akwa Ibom. It establishes that the Federal Government of Nigeria in its National policy on Education has given official recognition to the development and provision of early childhood education in the country. It highlights the forces influencing learning in children and discussed the factors that enhance children to learn in pre-primary school. This combined with a number of factors to give rise to an unprecedented expansion in the provision of child care and early childhood education institutions in the country. It also identifies the inability of government among others to implement most of the measures it stated in the National Policy on Education and the constraints experienced in the system. It has also established that the provision of early childhood education will have positive influence on the educational development of children in later life.