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ERIC Number: EJ1471979
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1554-480X
EISSN: EISSN-1554-4818
Available Date: 0000-00-00
Ecology of the Classroom Support Program in Early Childhood Education for Children with Lower Income Family Backgrounds -- Case Singapore
Heidi Layne1; Mercy Jesuvadian2; Huichao Xie3; Rita Lim4; Bairavee2
Pedagogies: An International Journal, v20 n2 p208-224 2025
Children from lower socio-economic status families, at times, experience particular difficulties when entering school. These children may be equipped with different skill sets not recognized at school. Many countries, including Singapore, are increasingly concerned about the quality of early education. Paramount to quality is also the inclusion and accommodation of diverse learners into the mainstream education setting. The Classroom Support Program (CSP), under scrutiny of this study, is a small-group (and one-on-one) intervention programme developed and implemented by the NTUC First Campus in Singapore. The Classroom Support Program (CSP) involves Classroom Co-Facilitators (CCFs) aiming to include and support children from lower-income family background into early learning classrooms. The objective of the study was to understand the effects of the Classroom Support Program. The results indicate that while this programme provided individualized and tailored learning experiences for these children, CCFs roles and responsibilities varied due to the lack of pedagogical leadership. The proportion of their work is on the academic preparation of the children and while they promote the holistic well-being of the children in their talk, the children spent long periods of the day in teacher directed learning.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Singapore
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Author Affiliations: 1Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland; 2Centre for Research in Child Development, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Walk, Singapore; 3School of Education, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; 4NTUC First Campus, Singapore