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Prev Med Rep. 2021 Jul 19;23:101498. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2021.101498. eCollection 2021 Sep.

Preschool instructional approaches and age 35 health and well-being.

Preventive medicine reports

Jasmine R Ernst, Arthur J Reynolds

Affiliations

  1. Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

PMID: 34367887 PMCID: PMC8326420 DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2021.101498

Abstract

In this study we sought to explore the association between preschool instructional approach and health and well-being at age 35 for a large sample of low-income children. Participants included 989 low-income, minority children who attended Child-Parent Center preschools as part of the Chicago Longitudinal Study from 1983 to 1985. Preschool curriculum was obtained from teacher reports and validated by program evaluators. These data were categorized by raters as: high teacher-directed and child-initiated; low teacher-directed and child-initiated; low teacher-directed and high child-initiated; or high teacher-directed and low child-initiated. Data on adult outcomes were obtained through surveys and administrative records. Those in preschool classrooms with high teacher-directed and child-initiated instruction had increased odds of having a livable wage (Odds Ratio(OR) = 2.02,

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Keywords: Early childhood education; Health; Instruction; Longitudinal; Preschool; Well-being

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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