Constraints inhibiting Zimbabwean parents’ active involvement in their children’s preschool education in the Bubi district.
- Title
- Constraints inhibiting Zimbabwean parents’ active involvement in their children’s preschool education in the Bubi district.
- Author(s)
- Mhlanga, S., Okeke, C.I., & Edeh, M.O. See all items with this value
- Date
- 2021 See all items with this value
- Description
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Poor paternal participation in parenting children aged 0 to 6 has been demonstrated in considerable studies. Such absence of paternal roles during the early development could adversely affect general development of the children at later years. Given these reasons, this study explored the constraints inhibiting Zimbabwean parents’ active involvement in their
children’s preschool education in the Bubi district of Zimbabwe. The study is based on the principles of interconnectedness within settings and the linkages between settings that affect individual development. The study focused on the immediate, being the microsystems. The interpretive paradigm and the qualitative approach were employed to explore the constraints inhibiting Zimbabwean parents’ active involvement in their children’s preschool education in the Bubi District. Purposive sampling was used to select a small sample of two Heads of schools, four Early Childhood Development teachers and sixteen parents; these were from two schools in the Bubi district of Matabeleland, North Province of Zimbabwe. The results showed that low socio-economic factors, lack of awareness, values and attitude among others are attributed to non-participation of fathers in the development of zero to six aged children. We therefore recommend that there should be provision of statutory instruments that clearly state the role of the parents. - Publisher
- Proceedings of South African International Conference on Education (SAICEd) See all items with this value
- Keywords
- Parents’ involvement; preschool Children; Education; Childhood Development See all items with this value
- pages
- 231-242
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- Journal Articles
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