Indo Caribbean Immigrant Beliefs about Play and Its Impact on Early Academic Performance

Autor/inn/en	Roopnarine, Jaipaul L.; Jin, Bora
Titel	Indo Caribbean Immigrant Beliefs about Play and Its Impact on Early Academic Performance
Quelle	In: American Journal of Play, 4 (2012) 4, S.441-463 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1938-0399
Schlagwörter	Achievement; Acculturation; Language Skills; Play; Foreign Countries; Models; Cultural Differences; Ethnic Groups; Parents; Parent Attitudes; Immigrants; Interviews; Mothers; Fathers; Correlation; Early Childhood Education; Guyana; New York; Trinidad and Tobago + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Performance; Leistung; Akkulturation; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Spiel; Ausland; Analogiemodell; Kultureller Unterschied; Ethnie; Eltern; Elternverhalten; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Mother; Mutter; Korrelation; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Trinidad und Tobago
Abstract	In this study, the authors use psycho-cultural models of ethnic parental theories and acculturation to look at Indo Caribbean immigrant beliefs concerning the relationship between the amount of time children play and their early academic performance. During home interviews, fifty-seven Indo Caribbean couples offered their opinions about the importance of play for childhood development and estimated the amount of time their children both played and studied at home. The authors then tested each child for early academic performance using the Kaufman Survey of Early Academic and Language Skills. Mothers and fathers held discrepant beliefs about the value of play, and maternal beliefs about the cognitive benefit of play affected the relationship between the amount of time children play and their cognitive performance. The authors discuss the data in the context of immigrant acculturation and the impact the roles of parent and child have on determining the associations between play and childhood achievement. (Contains 5 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10