Learning From Newly Settled Families in an Aotearoa New Zealand Playgroup

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aut.relation.journalJournal of Early Childhood Research
dc.contributor.authorJacobs, MM
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-14T02:17:45Z
dc.date.available2024-02-14T02:17:45Z
dc.date.issued2023-12-05
dc.description.abstractFamilies engage in a range of cultural practices in their everyday lives that shape children’s early literacies. Given the growing number of children who are living outside the country of their birth or their parents’ birth, more research is needed to highlight the under-recognised literacies of young children shaped by their family cultural practices and immigration experiences. This year-long qualitative study in an Aotearoa New Zealand playgroup explored how newly settled families worked to sustain their cultural practices and supported their young children’s understandings of new cultural norms in the context of immigration. Qualitative data collection methods included participant observation in the playgroup and photo-elicitation and semi-structured interview conversations in family languages. Findings highlight family aspirations and tensions regarding children’s participation in family cultural practices over time, sustaining family languages once children transitioned to school, and notions of belonging. Family participation was integral to interpreting children’s meaning-making in the playgroup, including how children flexibly navigated language differences and unfamiliar cultural practices. This study highlights the importance of learning from families about the linguistic and cultural resources young children draw on to represent, communicate and belong in a new country.
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Early Childhood Research, ISSN: 1476-718X (Print); 1741-2927 (Online), SAGE Publications. doi: 10.1177/1476718X231210640
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1476718X231210640
dc.identifier.issn1476-718X
dc.identifier.issn1741-2927
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/17226
dc.languageen
dc.publisherSAGE Publications
dc.relation.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1476718X231210640
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2023. Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC 4.0). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subject39 Education
dc.subject3904 Specialist Studies In Education
dc.subjectPediatric
dc.subject1 Underpinning research
dc.subject1.2 Psychological and socioeconomic processes
dc.subject1301 Education Systems
dc.subject1608 Sociology
dc.subject1701 Psychology
dc.subject3903 Education systems
dc.titleLearning From Newly Settled Families in an Aotearoa New Zealand Playgroup
dc.typeJournal Article
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