Awareness of early childhood educational managers about transition from home to kindergarten

Abstract

The article presents a survey results on the awareness of early childhood education managers of supporting children in the transition period from home to kindergarten through questionnaire filled by 213 managers in some provinces and cities in Vietnam. The results showed that the managers were initially aware of the transition from home to kindergarten such as the time and way of transition. However, they concerned much more with the aspect of “ready schools” than “ready families” or “ready children”. Although managers were aware of the role of parents in the transition from home to kindergarten, the ways which parents supported their children were not considered. In addition, factors related to the children such as development levels and abilities were lacked of attention. Therefore, the school's transition support activities were not diversified, which didn’t pay much attention to the participation of families and children by their own. The results also affirmed that it has been many difficulties and barriers from families and communities in the transition period from home to kindergarten of children.