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The Role of Environmental and Individual Factors in Pre-Academic Achievement for Kindergarten Children
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Orr, Edna; Shapira, Anat Adi; Caspi, Rinat – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study examined the effects of maternal and children's resources on school readiness, literacy achievements, and reading motivation in children. The participants included children (N = 180) (124 girls; 56 boys) from 19 kindergartens, their mothers, and their kindergarten teachers. Mothers reported on their working hours, interaction quality,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Readiness, Kindergarten, Mothers
Maternal Socio-Ecological Antecedents and Children's School Readiness
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Orr, Edna; Caspi, Rinat – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2021
Objective: This study aimed to examine the effects of maternal demographics, interaction quality, and children's gender on school readiness using different informants. Method: Participants recruited for this study included 25 kindergarten teachers, 271 mothers, and their kindergarten children (169 girls and 102 boys with a mean age of 4.28 years).…
Descriptors: Mothers, Individual Characteristics, School Readiness, Gender Differences
The Personal Relationship between the Kindergarten Teacher and the Parents as a Mediator between Cultures
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Eliyahu-Levi, Dolly; Ganz-Meishar, Michal – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2019
The purpose of the study is to describe the teacher's personal connection with parents as an intermediary factor between cultures and to examine the implications for the future of the migrant group in the receiving society. The study is a qualitative study based on the phenomenological approach and involved five teachers working with African…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Immigrants, Cultural Differences
Shared Book Reading Interactions within Families from Low Socioeconomic Backgrounds and Children's Social Understanding and Prosocial Behavior
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Aram, Dorit; Deitcher, Deborah Bergman; Shoshan, Tami Sabag; Ziv, Margalit – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2017
The study explored the nature of mother-child conversation during and after a shared book reading (SBR) interaction and how it relates to children's social understanding and prosocial behavior. Participants were 61 mother-child dyads (children's mean age 5 years, 8 months) from low socioeconomic strata (SES). Mother-child SBR and their…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Background, Prosocial Behavior, Social Cognition, Mothers
Learning "What" Is Essential: Relative and Absolute Changes in Children's Beliefs about the Heritability of Ethnicity
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Diesendruck, Gil; Birnbaum, Dana; Deeb, Inas; Segall, Gili – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
There are conflicting findings regarding the development of essentialist beliefs about social categories. The present studies address these findings by differentiating between the developments of the relative versus absolute essentialist status of categories. Participants were Israeli Secular Jewish and Muslim Arab kindergarteners, second graders,…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Ethnicity, Genetics, Elementary School Students
Book Reading Mediation, SES, Home Literacy Environment, and Children's Literacy: Evidence from Arabic-Speaking Families
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Korat, Ofra; Arafat, Safieh H.; Aram, Dorit; Klein, Pnina – First Language, 2013
This article investigates the contribution of maternal mediation in storybook reading, socioeconomic status (SES), and home literacy environment (HLE) to children's literacy level in kindergarten and first grade in Israeli Arabic-speaking families. A total of 109 kindergarten children and their mothers participated. Children's literacy level was…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Literacy, Kindergarten, Video Technology