Parenting Education: Relationship between Parent-Child Interaction and Preprimary Children’s Writing Readiness Skills in Siaya County, Kenya

Simple item page
dc.contributor.advisorTeresa Mwomaen_US
dc.contributor.authorRabok, Daniel Achero
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-02T08:39:53Z
dc.date.available2021-11-02T08:39:53Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionA Research Project Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Degree of Master of Education (Early Childhood Education) in the School of Education, Kenyatta University, June, 2021en_US
dc.description.abstractParenting education programmes have been found to promote good parent-child interactions in their households. Consequently, benefits in academic success, proper development of a child, prevention of child maltreatment and child aggression, have been associated with these programs. However, there is limited information regarding educational outcomes of the parenting education programmes in Kenya. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to establish whether there is a relationship between parent-child interactions and pre-schoolers writing readiness skills in Ugunja in Siaya County, Kenya. The study explored in detail whether performance of pre-schoolers on writing readiness is related to their caregivers’ level of income and whether level of knowledge on responsive parenting and their pre-schoolers’ temperaments influence interactions between them and pre-schoolers. The study was anchored on the Ecological systems theory by Urie Brofenbrenner. The theory explains how five various environmental settings affect the development of a person. The population of the study comprised of parents and their pre-schoolers in Ugunja Sub County, who benefited and those who did not benefit from ChildFund Kenya’s parenting education programme. Purposive sampling was used in selecting the location of the study, pre-schools and parents to be involved in the study. Pre-schoolers who represented other pupils in the study were selected through stratified simple random sampling technique. One hundred and ninety-six parents and their pre-schoolers participated in the study as respondents. Questionnaire and learners’ writing readiness assessment tests were used to collect data from caregivers and pre-schoolers respectively. To ensure validity of the instruments, content analysis was done. Descriptive statistics including means, standard deviation and percentages were used in summarizing data while inferential techniques such as one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation and Spearman moment correlation were used to analyse the data with the help of Statistical Package of Social Science version 20. The study found a significant and positive relationship between parent-child interactions and level of writing readiness of pre-schoolers. There was a significant and positive relationship between pre-schoolers’ level of writing readiness and their parents’ income. The findings revealed an existence of significant difference in means of parent-child interaction across parents’ knowledge level on responsive parenting. The study also found a significant difference in means of parent-child interaction in relation to children’s temperaments. It was concluded that there was a significant positive relationship between parent-child interactions and writing readiness. There was a relationship between income level and pre-schoolers’ writing readiness. Responsive parenting knowledge and children temperaments influence parent–child interactions. It was recommended that there is need for a parenting curriculum to be developed and used in training of Community Health volunteers, Child Protection volunteers, pre-school teachers, religious leaders and other opinion leaders in communities to sensitize parents on responsive parenting and be economically empowered. Child focused organizations and government should scale up parenting education programmes.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipKenyatta Universityen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/22902
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherKenyatta Universityen_US
dc.subjectParenting Educationen_US
dc.subjectRelationshipen_US
dc.subjectParent-Child Interactionen_US
dc.subjectPreprimary Children’sen_US
dc.subjectWriting Readiness Skillsen_US
dc.subjectSiaya Countyen_US
dc.subjectKenyaen_US
dc.titleParenting Education: Relationship between Parent-Child Interaction and Preprimary Children’s Writing Readiness Skills in Siaya County, Kenyaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Parenting Education.....pdf
Size:
1.27 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Full text thesis
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.71 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download
Collections
MST-Department of Early Childhood Studies