Exploring the implementation of the TIME Home Learning programme and learning trajectories of 5- to 7-year-olds. Implementing TIME at home: Insights from caregivers
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2024
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Wordworks
Abstract
This is the fourth in a series of learning briefs that explore the implementation of the TIME Home Learning programme and learning trajectories of 5- to 7-year-olds. This brief is based on interviews, home visits and observations made between February 2022 and August 2023 with participating families of children who were in Grade R in 2022 and in Grade 1 in 2023. It focuses on the home circumstances of families and their lived experiences while engaging with the TIME programme. This brief seeks to address the following questions:
• How does the diversity of families and homes challenge our mental representations of “family” and “home”?
• What does it take to embed the practice of TIME in the routine of the home?
• What can we learn from caregivers’ experiences with TIME at home, which could help improve the frequency and the quality of families’ engagement?
Reviewing the stories of a few families under a dynamic lens, the brief discusses how home circumstances such as family configurations, poverty, working hours, multilingualism, influence the levels of caregiver engagement with the TIME programme, and draws a typology of caregiver engagement.
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More information about the TIME (Together in My Education) home-learning programme and materials can be found in open access at: https://wwhomeliteracy.org.za/time/
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Early learning, Early literacy, South Africa, Wordworks, Home-learning, Parental involvement, Longitudinal study, Grade R, Grade 1, caregiver engagement, Multilingualism
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von Blottnitz, M. (2024). Exploring the implementation of the TIME Home Learning programme and learning trajectories of 5- to 7-year-olds, Brief 4, Wordworks: Cape Town