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Parental expectation of early childhood education: comparison between China, Japan, and Korea

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Frontiers of Education in China

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This study investigates 727 parents from China, Japan, and Korea by a self-devised scale and compares the differences in their expectation of early childhood education in cross-cultural backgrounds. The result shows that parents from the three countries have a positive attitude toward their children's development. The main effect of nations on such factors as individual development, close attention to diet, willpower training, moral judgment, and emotional exchange with adults is significant, while the two-way interaction between nations and child gender, nations and child age, and the three-way interaction between nations, child gender, and child age are not significant.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, 730070, China

    Zhou Aibao & Ma Xiaofeng

  2. School of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

    Aoyagi Hajime

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  1. Zhou Aibao
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Correspondence to Zhou Aibao.

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Translated from Xueqian Jiaoyu Yanjiu 学前教育研究 (Studies in Preschool Education), 2006, (4): 60–62

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Zhou, A., Ma, X. & Hajime, A. Parental expectation of early childhood education: comparison between China, Japan, and Korea. Front. Educ. China 2, 140–147 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-007-0011-1

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