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Starting School in Australia Is "a Bit Safer, a Lot Easier and More Relaxing": Issues for Families and Children from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds

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Dockett, Sue; Perry, Bob – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2005

The project described in this paper investigated the needs and concerns identified by parents from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds as their children started school in Sydney, Australia. Six groups of parents from Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Samoan, Turkish and Vietnamese language backgrounds were interviewed about what was…

Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Vietnamese, Malayo Polynesian Languages