Not Just Any Child Care Center? Social and Ethnic Disparities in the Use of Early Education Institutions with a Beneficial Learning Environment

Autor/inn/en	Becker, Birgit; Schober, Pia Sophia
Titel	Not Just Any Child Care Center? Social and Ethnic Disparities in the Use of Early Education Institutions with a Beneficial Learning Environment
Quelle	In: Early Education and Development, 28 (2017) 8, S.1011-1034 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1040-9289
DOI	10.1080/10409289.2017.1320900
Schlagwörter	Early Childhood Education; Child Care Centers; Educational Environment; Social Influences; Ethnic Groups; Racial Differences; Statistical Analysis; Educational Attainment; Parent Background; Language Usage; German; Foreign Countries; Environmental Influences; Family Environment; Hypothesis Testing; Educational Quality; Learning Activities; Interviews; Questionnaires; Class Size; Multivariate Analysis; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Child care facilities; Child care services; Kinderzentrum; Kinderbetreuung; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Sozialer Einfluss; Ethnie; Rassenunterschied; Statistische Analyse; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Elternhaus; Sprachgebrauch; Deutscher; Ausland; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Familienmilieu; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Lernaktivität; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Fragebogen; Klassengröße; Multivariate Analyse; Deutschland
Abstract	This study investigates social and ethnic differences in the use of early childhood education and care (ECEC) centers with different learning environments in an ECEC system with universal state-subsidized provision and low fees. Based on the German National Educational Panel Study-Kindergarten Cohort from 2011, we matched data on 587 groups in 253 ECEC centers with information on about 1,700 children and their parents and applied stepwise multivariate regression models. Research Findings: The results showed that social and ethnic differences tended to be small and were mostly not significant in terms of structural quality, activities, and materials in ECEC centers. In contrast, large disparities emerged regarding the use of ECEC centers with different compositions of children: Children of low educated parents and those with a non-German family language attended institutions with higher proportions of children from families with low educated parents and from families with a non-German family language, respectively. Practice or Policy: To counteract and compensate for the large disparities in the social and ethnic composition of children in ECEC centers, state funding rules and structural quality standards should take the composition more strongly into account. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01