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Parents' Experiences of Supporting Young Children's Creative Thinking
Parents' Experiences of Supporting Young Children's Creative Thinking
This chapter focuses on:
- The ways in which parents view their relationship with practitioners;
- The value of using video-recorded episodes during home visits to parents;
- Parents’ perceptions of what children do at home and their understanding of creative thinking;
- Parents’ interpretation of the connections between what children do at home and in the early childhood setting.
The value of parental involvement in settings and the importance of parents’ role in their children's learning both at home and at school, has been discussed in Chapters 4 and 6. The premise that ‘what parents do’ with their children is more important than ‘who parents are’ (Sylva et al., 2004), as well as the emphasis placed on parental ...
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