Research Around the World

The website that I chose to explore this week was  from the European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA) found at http://www.eecera.org/.  Some of the topics found in the journal included play, motor-skills, social-emotional interaction and technology and outdoor activity.

An article topic that caught my attention was entitled “How often do you play with your child? The influence of parents’ cultural capital on the frequency of familial activities from age three to six."This article caught my attention because I have children who are between the ages of three and six. As a working parent who is also attending school I find that it is often hard for me to find time or the energy to play with my children and keep up with all the things that I have to do throughout the day. According to the abstract:

The article analyses the role of parents' cultural capital as a mediating factor between families' social and ethnic background and the frequency of stimulating familial activities in early childhood. Using the data from the German longitudinal study ‘Preschool Education and Educational Careers among Migrant Children’, it is shown that parents' cultural capital completely mediates the effect of mother's education and part of the ethnic origin effect. Additional longitudinal analyses reveal that the influence of parents' cultural capital changes over time and is most pronounced at the earliest measurement.

I was not able to read the full article as I had to have had a subscription but I feel that it is important to find time to play with my children and am looking forward to the break between the semester and the warmer weather so that I am able to go out and play with them and share times and cultural capital with my children.

European Early Childhood  Research Journal, 2014

Vol.22, No.1, 4-13, http:/ /doi/full/10.1080/1350293X.2013.865355