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Article History

Received: 27 May 2025

Accepted: 20 August 2025

First Online: 3 September 2025

Declarations

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: I hereby declare that the article entitled “Teachers’ Perceptions and Practices of Play-Based Pedagogy in Ethiopia Preschools” is my original work and has not been submitted previously for publication or for any academic award. All sources of information and data used in the article have been duly acknowledged and referenced. I confirm that this article does not contain any material that infringes upon the copyright of others or violates any ethical standards. I take full responsibility for the content, accuracy, and originality of this work.

: The research involving human participants was approved by the CEBS’s Institutional Review Board (IRB). All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The IRC Approval Reference No. is CEBS_IERC_ECCE_003/2024. The expiration date of this approved certificate is July 26, 2026.

: Informed consent was obtained from all 12 teacher participants. Their voluntary agreement to participate in the study was confirmed prior to data collection. For the preschool context, consent was also obtained from the four preschool principals allowing access to their institutions for the research.

: The author declares that there are no known competing financial or non-financial interests that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.