FATHER INVOLVEMENT IN PRESCHOOL EDUCATION PROGRAMS BASED ON TEACHERS’ POINTS OF VIEW

Year 2024, Volume: 16 Issue: 4, 529 - 549, 22.10.2024

Fatma Tezel Şahin , Zeynep Nur Aydın Kılıç , Aysegul Akıncı Cosgun

Abstract

Family involvement activities are of a significant place in increasing the success in preschool education and maintaining the education. However, while mother involvement is obtained in the family involvement activities, father involvement is neglected. For that reason, the current study aims at determining the views of teachers with regard to father involvement in the preschool education programs. The working group of the study consisted of 23 preschool teachers. The study is a descriptive survey. The data were obtained through individual interviews. As a data collection instrument, “Teacher Interview Form” was used. The data were analysed through content analysis method. At the end of the research, a great majority of the teachers stated that they were proficient in applying family involvement studies. They also pointed out that they held more family meetings in order to obtain family involvement and then they implemented involvement activities both in the class and out of the class for parents. They expressed that they observed more mother involvement in these activities that fathers. Parents expressed that the reasons why fathers involved in these activities less compared to mothers were the working conditions of fathers and that it was regarded as a task of mothers.

Keywords

Preschool education, Parent Involvement, Father Involvement, Teacher Views

ÖĞRETMENLERİN BAKIŞ AÇISINA DAYALI OKUL ÖNCESİ EĞİTİM PROGRAMLARINDA BABA KATILIMI

Abstract

Family involvement activities are of a significant place in increasing the success in preschool education and maintaining the education. However, while mother involvement is obtained in the family involvement activities, father involvement is neglected. For that reason, the current study aims at determining the views of teachers with regard to father involvement in the preschool education programs. The working group of the study consisted of 23 preschool teachers. The study is a descriptive survey. The data were obtained through individual interviews. As a data collection instrument, “Teacher Interview Form” was used. The data were analysed through content analysis method. At the end of the research, a great majority of the teachers stated that they were proficient in applying family involvement studies. They also pointed out that they held more family meetings in order to obtain family involvement and then they implemented involvement activities both in the class and out of the class for parents. They expressed that they observed more mother involvement in these activities that fathers. Parents expressed that the reasons why fathers involved in these activities less compared to mothers were the working conditions of fathers and that it was regarded as a task of mothers.

Keywords

Okul öncesi eğitim, Ebeveyn Katılımı, Baba Katılımı, Öğretmen Görüşleri

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