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Publication Date: 2021
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'It's in My Interest to Collaborate … ' -- Parents' Views of the Process of Interacting and Building Relationships with Preschool Practitioners in Sweden
Early Child Development and Care, v191 n16 p2532-2544 2021
This article aims to explore parents' perspectives on, and experiences of, home and preschool collaboration in a Swedish context. The research question is: How do parents perceive the process of building good relationships with preschool practitioners? The data consist of interviews with 10 parents with one or more children attending preschool. The research process follows the procedures significant to constructivist grounded theory. In the results, parents stress the necessity of continuity in building trusting and authentic relationships with preschool practitioners in order to shoulder parental responsibilities from afar and facilitate children's well-being, development and learning at preschool. Parents attempt to create prerequisites for collaboration when choosing a preschool. The relationship-building process is described in different ways; some see it as effortless, while others see it as a struggle.
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Attitudes, Parent School Relationship, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Family School Relationship, Trust (Psychology), Interaction, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries, Preschools
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden (Stockholm)
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