TY - JOUR
T1 - “So that his mind will open”
T2 - Parental perceptions of early childhood education in urbanizing Ghana
AU - Kabay, Sarah
AU - Wolf, Sharon
AU - Yoshikawa, Hirokazu
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank dedicated staff and thought partners at Innovations for Poverty Action, including Loic Watine, Callie Lowenstein, and Justice Quame-Amaglo. We’d also like to thank the UBS Optimus Foundation for support for the study from which these data were collected. Yoshikawa's work on this article was partly supported by funding from the NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute provided to the Global TIES for Children Center at New York University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2017/11
Y1 - 2017/11
N2 - As policy makers and practitioners work to increase access to early childhood education (ECE) and to improve the quality of existing services, it is important that the field consider the perspective of a key stakeholder: parents. This study analyzes 33 interviews with parents of young children in urban Ghana. The interviews investigate (1) what parents believe to be the purpose of ECE, and (2) parents’ perspective on what and how young children should learn. Results are analyzed around five themes: play, homework, mobility, language and diversity, and age of entry into school. Implications for global ECE policy are discussed.
AB - As policy makers and practitioners work to increase access to early childhood education (ECE) and to improve the quality of existing services, it is important that the field consider the perspective of a key stakeholder: parents. This study analyzes 33 interviews with parents of young children in urban Ghana. The interviews investigate (1) what parents believe to be the purpose of ECE, and (2) parents’ perspective on what and how young children should learn. Results are analyzed around five themes: play, homework, mobility, language and diversity, and age of entry into school. Implications for global ECE policy are discussed.
KW - Early childhood education
KW - Ghana
KW - Preschool
KW - Urbanization
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2017.08.013
DO - 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2017.08.013
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85033563423
SN - 0738-0593
VL - 57
SP - 44
EP - 53
JO - International Journal of Educational Development
JF - International Journal of Educational Development
ER -