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Researching well-being for children with low-income family background in Singapore: For whom and from whose perspective?
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Book chapter
Citation
Layne, H., Mardiana Abu Bakar, Jesuvadian, M. K., & Dhannea Rohaizad. (2022). Researching well-being for children with low-income family background in Singapore: For whom and from whose perspective. In O. S. Tan, K. K. Poon, B. A. O'Brien, & A. Rifkin-Graboi (Eds.), Early childhood development and education in Singapore (pp. 79-98). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7405-1_5
Abstract
Firstly, this chapter presents a review on what the current body of work – both international and local – indicates about research on childhood, inclusion and well-being for children from low-income family background. Secondly, it introduces a research initiative on the Child Support Model (CSM) developed by NTUC First Campus for low-income families in early learning context in Singapore. This chapter asserts that inclusion and well-being need to be recognised from a holistic perspective as a part of early childhood practices. Contemporary early childhood pedagogy, according to Pramling and Pramling (Educational encounters: Nordic studies in early childhood didactics. Springer, Dordrecht, 2011), refers to the interaction and communication between a teacher, a child and the learning environment, based on the achievement of intersubjectivity or sustained shared thinking (Siraj-Blatchford, Asia-Pac J Res Early Child Educ 1: 3–23, 2007). Therefore, we propose understanding of inclusion as a part of early childhood practices to serve children with diverse backgrounds beyond developmental delays. Furthermore, the chapter aims to discuss the meaning of well-being and problematises the idea of ‘low-progress’, often associated with children from low-income homes, thus confirming deficit theories where failure is attributed to the individual. The chapter then introduces the possibility of inclusion to meet the needs of individual children in a diversity of families within the low-income categorisations and beyond.
Date Issued
2022
ISBN
9789811674051
Publisher
Springer
DOI
10.1007/978-981-16-7405-1_5