Toward an understanding of the child's experience in a Montessori Early Head Start program
✍ Scribed by Jon Korfmacher; Paul Spicer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 328 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0163-9641
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
This report documents the development of a multimethod approach to understanding program processes in a center‐based Early Head Start program. The method, which combines teacher's ratings with participant observation and informal interviewing of families, offers an approach to understanding the experience of early childhood intervention from multiple perspectives. The focus of this article is on the use of data drawn from three case studies to illustrate one way of combining these two different orientations. We place this case‐study approach within a larger framework of ways in which qualitative and quantitative data can be combined to better understand how programs are delivered and experienced by participating children and their families. ©2002 Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health.