Hispanic Preschool Education: An Important Opportunity. ERIC/CUE Digest, Number 113.

Autor/in	Schwartz, Wendy
Institution	ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education, New York, NY.
Titel	Hispanic Preschool Education: An Important Opportunity. ERIC/CUE Digest, Number 113.
Quelle	(1996), (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	ERIC Publications; ERIC Digests in Full Text
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISSN	0889-8049
Schlagwörter	Bilingual Education; Cultural Awareness; Hispanic American Students; Hispanic Americans; Limited English Speaking; Literacy Education; Low Income Groups; Multicultural Education; Outreach Programs; Parent Education; Parent Participation; Poverty; Preschool Education; Social Services + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Hispanoamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Multikulturelle Erziehung; Jobcoaching; Parents education; Elternbildung; Elternschule; Elternmitwirkung; Armut; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Social service; Soziale Dienstleistung; Soziale Dienste
Abstract	Hispanic parents have been slow to overcome their historical reluctance to turn their young children over to nonfamily members for care, but the educational boost preschool provides is particularly important for the one-quarter of Hispanic American families who are poor by Federal guidelines. This digest describes the strategies and programs specially designed to meet the early education needs of Hispanic children, and reviews efforts to recruit the children, involve their parents, provide parent education, and provide a range of social services. Persuasive and culturally sensitive recruitment strategies, especially if implemented in the parents' native language, are useful in bringing children to preschool programs of various types. Preschools that serve bilingual and multicultural students do well to draw on the children's native cultures and languages. Most early education programs emphasize literacy development, whether monolingual or bilingual. Regardless of other competencies, the teachers of nonnative English speaking children should be able to communicate in the children's home language and be sensitive to their cultural backgrounds. (Contains 24 references.) (SLD)
Anmerkungen	ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education, Institute for Urban and Minority Education, Box 40, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 (free).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC