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An exploratory research on the attitudes of parents-workers in sending their children to childcare/pre-education centres

Modern parents-workers today contribute to the survival and maintenance of their households. However, work-life-balance is always their perennial issue. This research explores the attitudes of parents-workers in handling the childcare/pre-education centres issues. Do they feel indifferent in their d...

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Main Author: Rokis, Rohaiza
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2012
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HM1176 Social influence. Social pressure
HM701 Social systems
HM826 Social institutions
LB1140 Preschool education
LB1141 Kindergarten
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/28164/1/Social_Science_Poster_ID_No._1524_%28Rohaiza%29.pdf
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spelling my.iium.irep.281642019-09-05T05:25:42Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/28164/ An exploratory research on the attitudes of parents-workers in sending their children to childcare/pre-education centres Rokis, Rohaiza HM1176 Social influence. Social pressure HM701 Social systems HM826 Social institutions LB1140 Preschool education LB1141 Kindergarten Modern parents-workers today contribute to the survival and maintenance of their households. However, work-life-balance is always their perennial issue. This research explores the attitudes of parents-workers in handling the childcare/pre-education centres issues. Do they feel indifferent in their decision and action as long as there are people or bodies that able to mind their children while they are away at work? Or do they find in-house domestic helpers sufficiently adequate to do so? The research is a quantitative research project using questionnaire to 558 working parents-workers who work in Cheras, Gombak and Shah Alam areas. It is concluded that parents-workers incline to have a convenient attitude in sending their children to childcare/pre-education centres as long as they are cared while they are away at work. The result is definitely distressing. The research consequently recommends to induce in communitarian commitment of parents-workers and employers, with the help of the Government, by setting an integrated childcare/pre-education centres within the community that may reduce their dependency on in-house domestic helpers, if any. 2012 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/28164/1/Social_Science_Poster_ID_No._1524_%28Rohaiza%29.pdf Rokis, Rohaiza (2012) An exploratory research on the attitudes of parents-workers in sending their children to childcare/pre-education centres. In: IIUM Research, Invention and Innovation Exhibition 2012, 21st-22nd February 2012, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished)
institution Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia
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topic HM1176 Social influence. Social pressure
HM701 Social systems
HM826 Social institutions
LB1140 Preschool education
LB1141 Kindergarten
spellingShingle HM1176 Social influence. Social pressure
HM701 Social systems
HM826 Social institutions
LB1140 Preschool education
LB1141 Kindergarten
Rokis, Rohaiza
An exploratory research on the attitudes of parents-workers in sending their children to childcare/pre-education centres
description Modern parents-workers today contribute to the survival and maintenance of their households. However, work-life-balance is always their perennial issue. This research explores the attitudes of parents-workers in handling the childcare/pre-education centres issues. Do they feel indifferent in their decision and action as long as there are people or bodies that able to mind their children while they are away at work? Or do they find in-house domestic helpers sufficiently adequate to do so? The research is a quantitative research project using questionnaire to 558 working parents-workers who work in Cheras, Gombak and Shah Alam areas. It is concluded that parents-workers incline to have a convenient attitude in sending their children to childcare/pre-education centres as long as they are cared while they are away at work. The result is definitely distressing. The research consequently recommends to induce in communitarian commitment of parents-workers and employers, with the help of the Government, by setting an integrated childcare/pre-education centres within the community that may reduce their dependency on in-house domestic helpers, if any.
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title An exploratory research on the attitudes of parents-workers in sending their children to childcare/pre-education centres
title_short An exploratory research on the attitudes of parents-workers in sending their children to childcare/pre-education centres
title_full An exploratory research on the attitudes of parents-workers in sending their children to childcare/pre-education centres
title_fullStr An exploratory research on the attitudes of parents-workers in sending their children to childcare/pre-education centres
title_full_unstemmed An exploratory research on the attitudes of parents-workers in sending their children to childcare/pre-education centres
title_sort exploratory research on the attitudes of parents-workers in sending their children to childcare/pre-education centres
publishDate 2012
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/28164/1/Social_Science_Poster_ID_No._1524_%28Rohaiza%29.pdf
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