Cultural Communities and Parenting in Mexican-Heritage Families

Howes, Carollee; Guerra, Alison Wishard; Zucker, Eleanor

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“…Ninety-seven children participated in this research, drawn from a larger study examining cultural communities and parenting in low-income Mexican-heritage families (Howes, Guerra, & Zucker, 2007) in an urban area in the western United States. The children in this study were all of those in the larger sample who were of Mexican heritage and had complete story stem data.…”

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confidence: 99%

Examining Mexican-Heritage Children's Representations of Relationships With Mothers and Teachers in Preschool

Howes

2012

Journal of Research in Childhood Education

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Examining Mexican-Heritage Children's Representations of Relationships With Mothers and Teachers in Preschool

Howes

2012

Journal of Research in Childhood Education

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“…Although there are valid and reliable measures of general setting characteristics, for example the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scales (Harms, Clifford, & Cryer, 1998 ) and the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS; Pianta, La Paro, & Hamre, 2004 ), these more targeted observations of setting dimensions usually require a time -sampling procedure such as the Peer Play Scale (Howes & Matheson, 1992 ) or Q -sort procedures as in the Attachment Q -Set (Waters, 1987 ). Including measures of the cultural community requires intensive open -ended interviews with adults by interviewers who are culturally as well as linguistically bilingual (see, e.g., Howes, Wishard Guerra, & Zucker, 2007 ).…”

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Children's Social Development within the Socialization Context of Child Care and Early Childhood Education

Howes

2010

The Wiley‐Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development

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For many children, experiences within formal or informal child care, nursery school, preschool, or another form of early childhood education (CC/ECE) 1 are signifi cant for their social development because these programs are the context for interactions and relationships with nonrelative adults and peers. Social trends and some new reports of research released since the fi rst edition of this handbook highlight the importance of these socializing contexts. Over the past several decades, the proportion of nonmajority children in the United States and Europe has been increasing. As a result, large numbers of immigrant children and children whose racial and language heritage cultures are other -thanWhite and English are enrolled in CC/ECE programs. This demographic shift means that children and their adult caregivers and teachers are interacting and forming relationships with persons who come from communities with different patterns of interaction and engagement than their own. A landmark review paper by Johnson and colleagues (2003) called attention to experiences of children of color in CC/ECE. For these children, moving between home and CC/ECE requires adaptive social skills not only because of differences in social style but also because of unconscious bias and racism. The authors argued that research attention is needed to understand the infl uences of CC/ECE as a socialization experience for these children, and we speculate that children ' s social development is facilitated by caregiving adults who are sensitive to the children ' s transitions between socialization environments.A second social trend is in the number of CC/ECE programs that are oriented toward preacademic learning, preparing children for schooling that is increasingly driven by issues

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“…Immigrant parents in particular show a strong preference for caregivers who are relatives because they desire a continuity of culture and language for their children (Obeng 2007). In Latino communities especially, language use and social networks contribute to care preferences, particularly for foreign-born parents (Howes, Wishard Guerra, and Zucker 2007). Latina mothers with local family members are more likely to use relative care, while those with social networks within their neighborhoods often use informal friend or neighbor care.…”

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“…Latina mothers with local family members are more likely to use relative care, while those with social networks within their neighborhoods often use informal friend or neighbor care. Mothers who lack such contacts typically use center-based or formal care settings (Howes, Wishard Guerra, and Zucker 2007).…”

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‘You have to choose your childcare to fit your work’: Childcare decision-making among low-income working families

Sandstrom

Chaudry

2012

Journal of Children and Poverty

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Regardless of their economic background, most working parents face the task of arranging childcare at some point. The decision-making process they experience is often complex, and this complexity is intensified for particular groups of families with limited financial and social resources. In this paper, we present findings from a three-year qualitative study of the childcare choices of low-income working families, many of whom were immigrants, had limited English proficiency, were parents of children with special needs, or represented some combination of these factors. The study explored families' current care arrangements, their reasons for selecting a particular form of childcare, and the characteristics of their ideal arrangements. Data were coded to identify themes in parental preferences, decision factors, and the barriers families faced in accessing their preferred care arrangements. Most significantly, the parents studied described their preferences for an environment where their children could learn and be in the presence of caring and trustworthy caregivers. About a third of the families said they preferred relatives as caregivers, and selected relatives to provide childcare. Other parents selected care according to cost, location, and availability of the provider; they described the challenges of locating affordable, high-quality care that met their nonstandard schedules. These findings have important implications for childcare policy.

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Cultural Communities and Parenting in Mexican-Heritage Families

Cited by 27 publications

References 26 publications

Examining Mexican-Heritage Children's Representations of Relationships With Mothers and Teachers in Preschool

Examining Mexican-Heritage Children's Representations of Relationships With Mothers and Teachers in Preschool

Children's Social Development within the Socialization Context of Child Care and Early Childhood Education

‘You have to choose your childcare to fit your work’: Childcare decision-making among low-income working families

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