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- Title
Testing the Vision: Preschool Settings as Places for Meeting, Bonding and Bridging.
- Authors
Thorpe, Karen; Staton, Sally; Morgan, Robert; Danby, Susan; Tayler, Collette
- Abstract
The OECD (2006 Starting Strong II: Early Childhood Education and Care. OECD Publishing: Paris) envisions early childhood education and care settings as meeting places for diverse social groups; places that build social capital. This vision was assessed in a comparison of three preschools types: full-fee paying, subsidised-fee and publicly funded. The social composition within each was examined and the connectedness of the children (n = 472) who attended compared. Publicly funded preschools had more socially diverse populations. The quantity of social connectedness did not differ but children in publicly funded preschools described higher quality social relationships. Not all preschool settings are socially diverse but, where they are, the quality of relationships is highest.
- Subjects
ANALYSIS of variance; CHILD development; CHILD behavior; FRIENDSHIP; INTERPERSONAL relations; LANGUAGE acquisition; PRESCHOOLS; RESEARCH funding; SOCIAL skills; SOCIALIZATION; VIDEO recording; SOCIAL capital
- Publication
Children & Society, 2012, Vol 26, Issue 4, p328
- ISSN
0951-0605
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1099-0860.2010.00336.x