Parent-pre-school teacher relations during the COVID-19 pandemic ‒ Promoters and undermining factors

Sigal Tish; Iris Levy; Pninat Tal; Alona Peleg

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Sigal Tish ¹ ^* , Iris Levy ¹ , Pninat Tal ¹ , Alona Peleg ¹

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¹ The Academic College Levinsky- Wingate, Tel Aviv, ISRAEL^* Corresponding Author

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The COVID-19 pandemic compelled teachers to grapple with the challenge of distance learning and remote communication with pre-school children and their parents. This study examines how student-teachers perceived their and the teacher’s relations with the pre-school children and parents during the first lockdown. The study is based on a mixed-method, quantitative and qualitative, research design among ten third-year student-teachers in Israel. 56% reported that relations with parents during the first lockdown were strengthened, which they attributed to several factors (e.g., parental desire to establish a routine and maintain the child’s connection with their friends and teacher, and a desire to advance their children). Other factors were perceived to undermine parent-teacher relations (e.g., number of siblings, busy parents, economic and emotional stress, technological illiteracy). The study underscores the importance of a holistic and ecologic approach to relations among early childhood education teachers, student-teachers, parents, and children, and the critical need for partnership and transparency between the pre-school teacher and student-teacher.

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student-teacher perceptions
parents-teacher relationships
COVID-19
early childhood
promoters and undermining factors

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PEDAGOGICAL RES, Volume 8, Issue 1, January 2023, Article No: em0149

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Tish, S., Levy, I., Tal, P., & Peleg, A. (2023). Parent-pre-school teacher relations during the COVID-19 pandemic ‒ Promoters and undermining factors. Pedagogical Research, 8(1), em0149. https://doi.org/10.29333/pr/12724

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Tish S, Levy I, Tal P, Peleg A. Parent-pre-school teacher relations during the COVID-19 pandemic ‒ Promoters and undermining factors. PEDAGOGICAL RES. 2023;8(1):em0149. https://doi.org/10.29333/pr/12724

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Tish S, Levy I, Tal P, Peleg A. Parent-pre-school teacher relations during the COVID-19 pandemic ‒ Promoters and undermining factors. PEDAGOGICAL RES. 2023;8(1), em0149. https://doi.org/10.29333/pr/12724

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Tish, Sigal, Iris Levy, Pninat Tal, and Alona Peleg. "Parent-pre-school teacher relations during the COVID-19 pandemic ‒ Promoters and undermining factors". Pedagogical Research 2023 8 no. 1 (2023): em0149. https://doi.org/10.29333/pr/12724

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Tish, S., Levy, I., Tal, P., and Peleg, A. (2023). Parent-pre-school teacher relations during the COVID-19 pandemic ‒ Promoters and undermining factors. Pedagogical Research, 8(1), em0149. https://doi.org/10.29333/pr/12724

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Tish, Sigal et al. "Parent-pre-school teacher relations during the COVID-19 pandemic ‒ Promoters and undermining factors". Pedagogical Research, vol. 8, no. 1, 2023, em0149. https://doi.org/10.29333/pr/12724