Country- and Group-Specific Determinants of Informal Learning Activities in the Home

• In Event: AERA Poster Session 9
  In Poster Session: Early Childhood Education Partners

Abstract

The present study is one of the first to examine the home learning environment in different groups of disadvantaged families, using a design in which the same target groups (Turkish or Maghrebian immigration background, Roma families, low income native-born families) are studied in nine different European countries, allowing to estimate group and country effects. Whereas group effects, controlling for structural family characteristics, may indicate group-specific cultural factors influencing the HLE, country effects, controlling for all of the above, may point to the role of the services and education infrastructure and to possible effects of national integration policies.

Authors

• Katrin M. Wolf, Freie Universität Berlin

• Yvonne Anders, Freie Universität Berlin

• Paul P.M. Leseman, Utrecht University