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Karen Guo – Australian Educational Researcher, 2025
The significance of family involvement in early childhood services has been recognised as crucial for enhancing the educational outcomes of young children, particularly among those from minority and immigration backgrounds. Extensive research has been conducted on collaborative practices between immigrant parents and early childhood communities,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Involvement, Family School Relationship, Immigrants
Swindell, Jami Louise – ProQuest LLC, 2020
There are growing international efforts to identify best practices, quality indicators, and teacher qualifications and sustainable policy in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). This study explores strategies ECEC professionals in China and the United States implement to engage family members of young children with special education needs.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Early Childhood Teachers, Cultural Differences
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Fees, Bronwyn S.; Hoover, LuAnn; Zheng, Fuming – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2014
Early childhood education in China has a dynamic history of educational reform. The objective of this study was to examine kindergarten teachers' current perceptions of educational philosophies and practices. As a consequence of globalization, researchers also examined what teachers perceived their international colleagues should understand…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Elementary School Teachers
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Pang, Yanhui; Richey, Dean – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2006
Chinese traditional and contemporary families are introduced specific to their structure, cultural background, and socioeconomic status and gender roles, followed by an introduction to the relationship between family-centered practices in early childhood special education (ECSE) and current practices in China. Given the specific characteristics of…
Descriptors: Asian Culture, Foreign Countries, Cultural Background, Special Education
Montaperto, Ronald N., Ed.; Henderson, Jay, Ed. – 1979
China's educational system is the subject of this book, which includes observations and interpretations by individual members of an American delegation to the country in October, 1977. During the 18-day trip, the group visited preschool centers, primary centers, a middle school, colleges, universities and vocational schools, school-run factories,…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Community Involvement, Curriculum, Decision Making
Ma, Baolan; Guo, Xiaoping – 1995
This UNESCO monograph reports a study of the history and current state of parent schools in China, focusing on successes and problems with the parent school system. Section 1 describes China's response to the World Summit for Children, and details the study's aims, which are: (1) to understand family life and its roles; (2) understand the role and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Legislation, Family Characteristics, Family Involvement