Testing the vision: Preschool settings as places for meeting, bonding and bridging
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2010
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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. |
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Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. |
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DOI:10.1111/j.1099-0860.2010.00336.x Thorpe, Karen, Staton, Sally, Morgan, Robert, Danby, Susan, & Tayler, Collette P. (2010) Testing the vision: Preschool settings as places for meeting, bonding and bridging. Children and Society: the international journal of childhood and children's services, Online(Online), pp. 1-13. |
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© 2010 The Author(s). Children & Society © 2010 National Children’s Bureau and Blackwell Publishing Limited |
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Office of Education Research; Faculty of Education; Faculty of Health; Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation; School of Psychology & Counselling |
Palavras-Chave | #170103 Educational Psychology #180100 LAW #Preschool, Relationship Quality, Social Capital, Social Connectedness, Social Inclusion |
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Journal Article |