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ERIC Number: EJ1223025
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0260-7476
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Hong Kong Pre-Service Early Childhood Teachers' Attitudes towards Parental Involvement and the Role of Their Family Relationship Quality
Cheung, Sum Kwing; Kam, Cheuk Sin
Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, v45 n4 p417-433 2019
Teachers' attitudes towards parental involvement play an important role in the ways they approach children's families. This study examined Hong Kong pre-service early childhood teachers' attitudes towards different types of parental involvement strategies and investigated whether these attitudes were related to the quality of relationships within their own family. Data were collected from 163 Hong Kong pre-service early childhood teachers via questionnaire. Results showed that engaging families in school decisions was perceived as the least important and feasible. The pre-service teachers also felt least confident in implementing it. There were, however, discrepancies in the perceived levels of importance, feasibility and confidence towards other types of parental involvement strategies. The levels of cohesion and expressiveness in pre-service teachers' own families were positively related to their attitudes towards some types of parental involvement strategies. These findings suggest that teacher educators should take pre-service teachers' family experiences into consideration when preparing them to work with children's families.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Hong Kong
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