ERIC Number: EJ1436755
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-0300-4430
EISSN: EISSN-1476-8275
'It Is an Unfair Game': The Role of Capital in Framing the Relationships between Kindergarten Teachers and Parents
Liat Biberman-Shalev; Nurit Chamo; Shely Naar; Yitzchak Gilat
Early Child Development and Care, v194 n5-6 p738-752 2024
The article discusses the role of the different forms of capital within the patterns of relationships between kindergarten teachers (KTs) and parents in kindergartens located in one medium-high socioeconomic status neighborhood in Israel. The qualitative analysis conducted reveals how the parents' cultural capital serves as a resource to advance the kindergarten in functioning and marketing, and for the KTs, to improve trust, cope with solitude, and receive parents' feedback. The benefits for parents include furthering their children's educational progress and enhancing their well-being, dealing with the municipal bureaucracy, and controlling the kindergarten's operation. At the same time, it was found that capital resources may generate costs. For KTs, these may stem from parents' interfering, crossing boundaries, and bullying, and cause KTs to placate the parents; for the parents, the costs may come in the form of anxiety about their children's well-being.
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Cooperation, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Cultural Capital, Parent Participation, Barriers, Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Jews, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Israel
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