A SUCCESS STORY OF CHILD FRIENDLY SCHOOL PROGRAM: THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

In child friendly environment students feel motivation and readiness for learning. Staff members are friendly. They welcome children to school and attend to all their health and safety needs. The present research report is about the success of child friendly schools programs through a comparison of learning environment of child friendly schools with conventional schools. Data was collected from a sample of 480 students out of which 240 were from child friendly schools and 240 from conventional schools, through a questionnaire. Outcomes of the research exposed, on whole, that learning environment of child friendly schools was found better than conventional schools. Moreover, learning environment of child friendly schools for boys as well as girls were also appeared sound than conventional schools. While comparing academic performance of conventional and child friendly schools, it was found that academic performance of child friendly schools was better as compared with conventional schools. The findings indicating that school environment is very important are clearly eye opener to policy makers and educationists. Hence, it is recommended to bring more and more schools under child friendly school program.