Erken Çocukluk Eğitiminin Kalitesi ile Çocukların Sosyoekonomik Özellikleri Arasındaki İlişki

Abstract

The quality of early childhood education (ECE) schools and classrooms have been studied by many researchers. The results indicated that there is a considerable gap in terms of quality among ECE schools and classrooms. There is inequality among children from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds in attending high-quality ECE. It is known that a high proportion of the child population is currently attending public ECE schools. Therefore, the current study aims to get comprehensive data about the quality of public ECE classrooms and descriptive data about children’s socioeconomic backgrounds. Based on this, the current study aims to assess whether there is a relationship between these two factors and whether there is a gap among children in terms of reaching high-quality public ECE. This study is correlational research. The Non-random purposive sampling method is used for the data collection. The results show that there is a significant positive correlation between parents’ socioeconomic factors and the quality of ECE classrooms. The study contributed to the ECE literature by identifying the factors related to children, parents, teachers, and the quality of ECE classrooms. There is a need for further research in Turkey that defines and investigates the quality of ECE from a multidimensional perspective and particularly including families, schools, educational programs, and culture.