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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"low-income parents"”.
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Perceptions Of Five Low-Income Parents On School Readiness
… study explored the perceptions of five low-income mothers regarding their child's readiness for kindergarten. The study has the potential to help early childhood advocates and other stakeholders (a) understand how low-income environments influence school readiness, (b) understand the …
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Recruiting, Engaging, and Retaining Low Income Parents in Community Parenting Programs: A Phenomenological Study
… impact recruitment, engagement, and retention of low-income parents in community parenting programs. Using a traditional qualitative phenomenological approach, this research sought to develop an understanding of the difficulties that program providers often encounter in engaging low-income …
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Exploring the Relationship Between Low-Income Parents’ Perceptions of Their Participation and Students’ Lexile Levels and Attendance
… school, have a higher chance of reading below grade level, and often have high absenteeism rates. Some students who reside in poverty lack ongoing interactions with others where they can express themselves and increase their vocabulary. Many times, students who live in poverty are …
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Kinder Ready: Exploring the Role of Technology in Promoting School Readiness Among Low-Income Parents in a Clinic-Based Setting
… technology in promoting school readiness among low-income parents in a clinic-based setting.</p>
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Parental scaffolding: a case study of low-income families at a children's museum
"This study examines scaffolding behaviors that low-income parents used in a children’s museum. The primary research question is ""How might low-income parents scaffold their preschool-aged children in an early childhood exhibition in a children’s museum?"" with a supporting question of ""How is …
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Socio-demographic Factors Associated with Parenting Stress in Parents of Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorders
… and education level. In the current study, 50 parents of toddlers who went on to be diagnosed with ASD through a broader study of Early Detection of ASD provided demographic information and reported on their level of parenting stress using the Parenting Stress Index- Short Form (PSI- Abidin, …
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Parents' Beliefs and Knowledge Regarding Child Development and Appropriate Early Childhood Classroom Practices
The intent of this study was to assess low-income parents knowledge and beliefs regarding child development and appropriate classroom practice and to compare their responses with those obtained from a previous survey of upper-income parents (Grebe, 1998). This study group (N=21) consisted of …
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How can Bourdieu’s ‘Habitus’ inform the development of a parental engagement intervention for secondary school parents?
… inquiry identified factors impacting on low-income parental engagement at primary and secondary school using the concept of Bourdieu’s habitus. Bourdieu’s framework brings together several related concepts including cultural capital, the field and habitus. After scrutinising the uses and …
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Envisioning maternal health practice through antiracist feminisms
… health disparities, including preterm births, low birthweight, maternal and infant mortality, and maternal morbidities, disproportionately affect birthing parents of color, queer parents, and low-income parents in comparison to white, cisgender, heterosexual, financially-privileged parents. My …
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Labor Market Effects of the Working Family Tax Credit on Single Mothers in the UK
… provided fi- nancial incentives for work to low-income parents with children (primarily single mothers). The parents received full credit if they worked 16 hours/week and the credit decreases with more hours of work. The credit increased marginally when the parent worked 30 hours/week to …
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Educationally At-risk College Students From Single-parent and Two-parent Households: an Analysis of Differences Employing Cooperative Institutional Research Program Data.
Using factors of low income, parents' levels of education, and family composition as determinants of educationally at-risk status, study investigated differences between first generation, undergraduate college students from families in lowest quintile of income in the U.S, One group consisted of …
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The Head Start mother: organizational participation and the selves, self-concepts, and empowerment of low-income mothers
… parental participation in order to provide low-income parents a possibility of enriching their lives and empowering themselves through education. Using symbolic interaction as the initial theoretical perspective, I examine the experiences of mothers and how their involvement in the Head …
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Challenges and opportunities for socially just food systems in rural Scotland: an ethnographic exploration into how rurality shapes responses to and lived experiences of food insecurity among parents and carers in north-east Scotland.
… community food provision, and the experiences of low-income parents with young children in relation to three core notions of the human right to food – access, adequacy, and social acceptability. Drawing on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with community food providers in the rural …
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Journey to Parenthood: How New Fathers and Mothers Make Sense of Perinatal Emotional Distress
… on health and illness to examine how lay parents made sense of and acted on their perinatal mental health symptoms. I found that distressed new parents provided nuanced, complex accounts of perinatal mental health and largely did not individualize their troubles. Further, parents exercised …
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Parental involvement: an examination of principal sensemaking to engage low-income and/or minority parents
… gap by increasing the academic achievement of low-income and minority students. Parental involvement research asserts that parental involvement affects student academic success across all groups; however, few principals report the use of parental involvement strategies to increase student …
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A Tale of Two Parenting Interventions: Programme Effects on Sensitive and Responsive Caregiving in Brazil and the United Kingdom
… Effects of PIM were estimated at four-year follow-up on five parenting behavioural outcomes, including three observational measures of parent sensitivity, coerciveness and responsiveness. Separate moderation analyses were conducted for each moderator: family income, child age and duration of …