Challenges and Advantages of Collaborative Action Research in Preschools

Sigurdadottir, Ingibjorg; Einarsdóttir, Jóhanna

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-75559-5_7

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“…Community partnership also brings many benefits for the professional development of the teachers and improvement of the practice at the ECCE centers. In a study in Iceland, scientific communities and ECCE practitioners meet and work together to produce new knowledge in collaborative action research (Sigurdadottir and Einarsdottir, 2018). The relationship involves the practice system and the research system, which together produce a process of change.…”

Section: Benefits For Ecce Practitionersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Local community involvement in Malaysian early childhood care and education centers

Rahmatullah

Yassin

Omar

2021

IJEM

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PurposeThe paper aims to explore the role and the involvement of local community within the context of Malaysian early childhood centers (nursery and kindergarten).Design/methodology/approachThe research used a mixed method with a questionnaire survey in the first phase and qualitative interviews in the second phase. Quantitative data were obtained from a survey completed by 3,519 staffs from nursery and kindergarten all over Malaysia. Qualitative data were collected from individual and focus group semistructured interviews conducted with 140 participants of the Malaysian public and private internal and external stakeholders ranging from the relevant personnel of the early childhood care and education (ECCE) centers (administrators, teachers and practitioners), academic experts, regulatory agencies and parents.FindingsSurvey results indicate that the parents and community involvement with ECCE centers from the perspective of the management and practitioners is in the medium category. A total of three overarching themes were identified from the interviews, namely expertise collaboration, resource sharing and operation monitoring. There exists diversity in terms of community engagement and cooperation with ECCE centers.Practical implicationsThe findings are expected to provide valuable guidelines to ECCE centers' management and leadership in the aspect of community involvement where it could help to enhance their efforts of providing quality learning experiences for young children attending their centers.Originality/valueThis study is part of a larger longitudinal and mixed methods project examining the quality practices in setting the standards in the Malaysian National Quality ECCE framework. These findings contribute to the understanding of community involvement with ECCE centers in the Malaysian context.

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Section: Benefits For Ecce Practitionersmentioning

confidence: 99%