The last months of the third year of kindergarten are considered a period full of expectations in view of the transition to primary school. The advent of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic changed this final moment of the preschool cycle, and children and their families had to face the lock-down and on-line learning experience. With a series of interviews made in the months of June-July 2020 with the parents of children who had just finished the last year of kindergarten, we tried to understand what the emotional experiences of this population in a delicate moment of transition between school orders were, in a historical period in which, due to emergency needs, on-line learning methods were introduced that had never before been used extensively for this age group.16 semi-structured interviews were carried out, with the methodology of the explicitation interview (Vermersch, 2005), to the parents of 18 children (9 females, a triplet of dizygotic twins) who attended the last year of kindergarten. 14 mothers and 2 fathers, 14 Italian families, and 2 of foreign origin responded. The interviews were carried out remotely and videotaped, fully transcribed, and then encoded with content analysis. We analyzed the experiences of children concerning the DAD: their participation, their difficulties, and the positive aspects encountered; moreover, we analyzed the parents' experience: parents were confronted with a very new task of teachers, but they encountered practical, and technological difficulties as well. The in-depth analysis allowed using the explicitation interview makes the collected data particularly interesting in the line of studies on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, precisely because it explores the qualitative aspect of experience in a field that is certainly new to any researcher. Some of the indications that emerged may be useful not only concerning the lived experience and in general the reflection on the role of online learning, but also concerning the meaning of teaching with children in kindergarten.
On-line (DAD) in kindergarten: Parents' experiences
Molina, P
;Monetti, A;Caputo, SG;Ferrero, S;Marcone, MT;Versaci, L
2022-01-01
Abstract
The last months of the third year of kindergarten are considered a period full of expectations in view of the transition to primary school. The advent of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic changed this final moment of the preschool cycle, and children and their families had to face the lock-down and on-line learning experience. With a series of interviews made in the months of June-July 2020 with the parents of children who had just finished the last year of kindergarten, we tried to understand what the emotional experiences of this population in a delicate moment of transition between school orders were, in a historical period in which, due to emergency needs, on-line learning methods were introduced that had never before been used extensively for this age group.16 semi-structured interviews were carried out, with the methodology of the explicitation interview (Vermersch, 2005), to the parents of 18 children (9 females, a triplet of dizygotic twins) who attended the last year of kindergarten. 14 mothers and 2 fathers, 14 Italian families, and 2 of foreign origin responded. The interviews were carried out remotely and videotaped, fully transcribed, and then encoded with content analysis. We analyzed the experiences of children concerning the DAD: their participation, their difficulties, and the positive aspects encountered; moreover, we analyzed the parents' experience: parents were confronted with a very new task of teachers, but they encountered practical, and technological difficulties as well. The in-depth analysis allowed using the explicitation interview makes the collected data particularly interesting in the line of studies on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, precisely because it explores the qualitative aspect of experience in a field that is certainly new to any researcher. Some of the indications that emerged may be useful not only concerning the lived experience and in general the reflection on the role of online learning, but also concerning the meaning of teaching with children in kindergarten.
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