Journal Articles
Parents' expectations of pre-school education
- Parents' expectations of pre-school education
- Hong Kong Journal of Early Childhood, 3(2), 41-46, 2004
- The Hong Kong Institute of Education
- 2004
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Pre-Primary Education
- Pre-school parents' expectations have considerable influence on the early childhood curriculum. With better understanding of what parents expect for their children from pre-school provisions, constructive partnerships between school and parents could be established. This paper examines parents' expectations of pre-school education with reference to a small-scale study conducted in Hong Kong. Parents' understanding of the purposes of pre-school education and their curriculum expectations were investigated through interviews. Results of the eighteen parents' interviews showed that only a small number of these parents had high expectations on their pre-school children, which was different from some of the previous Hong Kong reports but was in line with a large scale survey conducted by a local pre-school education service provider. The nursery parents seemed to be less demanding on academic learning and showed more concern on learning self-care skills than the kindergarten parents. There was no obvious difference in expectations between parents with high and low education levels.[Copyright © 2004 The Hong Kong Institute of Education.]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 1682878X
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/60ecd8ef
- 2015-03-26
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