Parental involvement in preschools, parents’ and teachers’ perceptions of their roles

Abstract

Parents expectations for their preschool children are high in Singapore. As a small developing nation achievement and success at school are highly rated family aims. Parents therefore are anxious to give their children the necessary start and adequare provision and choice of preschool education is of primary concern. However parents concern for “appropriateness” in preschool programmes tends to dominate their attitudes and behaviour towards both their children and the teachers often leading to dissatisfaction and miscommunication. In order to improve such lack of cooperation the study attempts to investigate the type and pattern of parent‐teacher cooperation most acceptable to the needs of teachers, parents, and their preschool children.