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Grace, Rebekah; Walsh, Rosalind; Baird, Kelly – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
This study contributes to child voice research that seeks to understand the early childhood education and care (ECEC) experiences of young children. Forty-seven children from seven disadvantaged communities in NSW Australia, including urban, rural and remote areas, participated in a face-to-face interview guided by Ecocultural theory. The children…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Disadvantaged Environment, Student Participation
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Cummings, Katrina P. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Positive behaviour intervention and support (PBIS) models are evolving as an effective means to promote social and emotional competence among young children and address challenging behaviours. This study was designed to gain insights into parental involvement in programme-wide implementation of the "Pyramid" model. Interviews were…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Positive Behavior Supports, Parent Participation, Interviews
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Meng, Christine; Cheng, Ya-Fang – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This study used the actor-partner interdependence mediation model to examine the association among parents' depressive symptoms, sense of mastery, and parent involvement. To address the research goal, this study conducted secondary analysis using the cross-sectional data collected from the 2000 cohort of the Head Start Family and Child Experiences…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Parent Participation, Preschool Children
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Hachfeld, Axinja; Anders, Yvonne; Kuger, Susanne; Smidt, Wilfried – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
Home and educational institutions are children's most important external influences and a positive partnership between the two can positively affect children's cognitive and non-cognitive development. Quality of family-preschool partnership (FPP) can depend on preschool and family characteristics. For Germany, studies show that immigrant parents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family School Relationship, Parent Participation, Partnerships in Education
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Taylor, Catherine L.; Jose, Kim; van de Lageweg, Wietse I.; Christensen, Daniel – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Tasmania's child and family centres (Centres) provide a single entry point to early childhood services (ECS) for children and families living in amongst the most disadvantaged communities in Australia. This study investigated the impact of Centres on parents' use and experiences of ECS using a mixed methods approach. The results showed that Centre…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Family Programs
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Shimpi, Priya Mariana; Nicholson, Julie – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
Discussion of children's play in international and diverse communities requires careful consideration of social, cultural and political contexts impacting children's lives, as well as recognition of the complexities revealed when these variables are identified and analysed. Using diverse conceptual frameworks represented in the research…
Descriptors: Play, Childhood Attitudes, Adults, Interviews
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Pyle, Angela – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
Embracing the new sociology of childhood, this paper describes a participatory research method built on a belief in the competency of young children. The paper begins with a critical review of the photo elicitation literature exploring the varied levels of children's participation. Drawing on the strengths of the previous research, a multi-step…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Participatory Research, Kindergarten, Young Children
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Lau, Eva Yi Hung – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
Parents' perceptions and practices of parental involvement during the transition from kindergarten to primary school were captured through individual interviews with 18 Chinese parents after their children had entered primary school. The responses revealed that in order to facilitate children's adjustment during school transition, parents tended…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Influence, Parent Participation, Parent Attitudes
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Anderson, S.; Aller, T. B.; Piercy, K. W.; Roggman, L. A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Early childhood programmes (ECPs) serving children from low-income families are becoming increasingly interested in engaging fathers. The purpose of this study was to examine perspectives of diverse fathers with low incomes to more fully understand how their experiences within an ECP influenced father-role construction and facilitated their…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Father Attitudes, Fathers, Parent Role
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Murray, Elizabeth; McFarland-Piazza, Laura; Harrison, Linda J. – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
PreschoolThis study investigated the nature of parent involvement and parent-educator communication in prior-to-school early childhood settings and school, to explore relations to social capital variables and consistencies and changes in practices over time. Parent interview and teacher questionnaire data from two waves of the Longitudinal Study…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Regression (Statistics), Social Capital
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Coyl-Shepherd, Diana D.; Newland, Lisa A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
Increasingly couples in two-parent families share the dual responsibilities of parenting and providing for their children financially. Parenting is embedded within and shaped by specific family contexts. This study examined 92 mothers' and fathers' responses on indices of couple and family contexts, parent involvement, and child-reported…
Descriptors: Mothers, Fathers, Family Environment, Context Effect
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Denmark, Nicole; Jones Harden, Brenda – Early Child Development and Care, 2012
The aim of this article was to explore the everyday activities of young children from low-income Central American (CA) immigrant families. From the perspective that everyday activities propel children's development of culturally and contextually valued behaviours and skills, 48 mothers were interviewed regarding the activities that are available…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Hispanic Americans, Preschool Children, Parent Participation
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Freeman, Ramona – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
Professional family child care providers' work with children from birth through age five can be exemplary, particularly with regard to building stable and substantive relational ties. Such long-term engagements with client children and their families offer potential for strong partnership with families and local contexts over time. This paper…
Descriptors: Child Care, Family School Relationship, Caregivers, Young Children
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Goodsell, Todd L.; Meldrum, Jaren T. – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
This research investigates the meaning of child-father attachment where the child feels close to the father but distant from the mother. A categorical-content narrative analysis was conducted of four transcripts of interviews with women who were becoming mothers for the first time and who exhibited this pattern. The analysis suggests the…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Fathers, Attachment Behavior, Mothers
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Rose, Anthea; Atkin, Chris – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
There is concern from government in each of the sample sites over the role fathers play in supporting their children through school. Fathers have become a more "visible parent" and a focus for policy-makers in education. Family literacy programmes are used in this article as an example of an educational programme where fathers are often…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Family Literacy, Fathers
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