CHOOSING THE RIGHT KINDERGARTEN: PARENTS’ REASONING ABOUT THEIR ECEC CHOICES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DIVERSIFICATION OF ECEC PROGRAMS

• Authors: Kampichler Martina , Dvořáčková Jana , Jarkovská Lucie
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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The sphere of early childhood education care (ECEC) in the Czech Republic has diversified enormously in the last decade. The article describes this diversification process and, drawing on focus group data, analyses parents’ choices within this diversified realm. Based on the parents’ selection criteria (significantly influenced by constraints and opportunities relating to social background or family status), it identifies four parental groups: pedagogical approach-centred, child-centred, facility-centred and (constrained) non-selective. The issues of ECEC diversification and parental choice are then discussed in light of Annette Lareau’s classed cultural logics of child rearing and the potential implications for the reproduction and reinforcement of social inequalities.

Keywords

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EARLY CHILDHOOD; EDUCATION; CARE; SOCIAL INEQUALITIES; CZECH REPUBLIC

• Publisher: Faculty of Education, Trnava University
• Journal: Pedagogický časopis (Journal of Pedagogy)
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 9 – 32

Contributors

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Kampichler Martina

• Masaryk University, Faculty of Education, Institute for Research in Inclusive Education, Poříčí 623/7, 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic

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Dvořáčková Jana

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Jarkovská Lucie

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/jped-2018-0009