Abstract

Family involvement, an important element of effective early childhood education programs, is crucial for children's learning processes and development. With family involvement, while families have the opportunity of participating and contributing to their children's development and learning processes schools gain unique information about children's interests, needs and experiences. A positive cooperation to be developed between families and schools helps children to integrate home and school lives. The aim of this study is to present the current situation by reviewing the literature in terms of family involvement and discuss and compare the family involvement dimension of the Primary Years Program (PYP), Montessori, Reggio Emilia, Creative Curriculum and Te Whāriki programs, which are early childhood education programs and approaches around the world. For this purpose, a review study has been conducted.

Highlights

  • Following the change in the perception of child in the world, childhood has started to be seen as a separate developmental period

  • In order to achieve the ideal objectives of pre-school education, studentcentred programs based on children's interests, needs, abilities and developmental characteristics should be designed besides improving the physical infrastructures of the pre-school education institutions and qualities of their teachers and this program should incorporate family involvement into the education (Düşek & Dönmez, 2012)

  • Childhood programs and approaches around the world can give more importance to different dimensions of family involvement, or include different adaptations and implementations according to their philosophy, objectives and goals

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Introduction

Following the change in the perception of child in the world, childhood has started to be seen as a separate developmental period. Etkili erken çocukluk eğitimi programlarının önemli bir boyutu olan aile katılımı, çocukların öğrenme süreçleri ve gelişimleri için çok önemlidir. A literature review was conducted by examining the relevant national and international literature for the purpose of analyzing the family involvement aspects of the Primary Years Program, Montessori, Reggio Emilia, Te Whāriki and the Creative Curriculum which are among early childhood education programs and approaches.

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