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Grandparents as educators and carers in China

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posted on 2009-02-01, 00:00 authored by B Nyland, X Zeng, C Nyland, Ly TranLy Tran
Many grandparents play a significant role as educators and carers of children in the preschool years. Recently, this role has become the focus of much early childhood research as challenges facing grandparent carers and grandparent-headed households increasingly become an economic and social issue. Using survey data from China we explore the role of grandparents who have a primary care responsibility for a young child and discuss this contribution to the family in relation to quality of care and education. We argue that grandparents play a significant role in terms of home education of the young, workforce support for young parents, cultural identity within families and community capacity building. Grandparents are therefore deserving of more sustained attention from policy makers and educators when considering the young child's developmental environment.

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Journal

Journal of early childhood research

Volume

7

Issue

1

Pagination

46 - 57

Publisher

Sage Publications

Location

London, England

ISSN

1476-718X

eISSN

1741-2927

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2009, Sage Publications

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