Parental Engagement In Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC): Fathers, low-income families and the move to a systemic analysis. Charlie Lewis, Lancaster University With appreciated help in preparation from Michael E. Lamb, University of Cambridge, and...
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Parental Engagement In Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC): Fathers, low-income families and the move to a systemic analysis. Charlie Lewis, Lancaster University With appreciated help in preparation from Michael E. Lamb, University of Cambridge, and Adrienne Burgess, The Fatherhood Institute. Introduction The aim of this background paper is to raise some points for discussion for participants that the third meeting of the Transatlantic Forum on Inclusive Early Years to be held in Lisbon in January 2014. It raises the issue of the father’s role in families with pre-schoolers living in difficult circumstances. The literature on fathers is massive, with over 700 journal articles per year identified on large search engines like ISI and SCOPUS. This paper attempts to draw attention to issue to do with the roles of fathers in young families, the correlations between paternal involvement and outcomes in child mental health and education, fathers’ involvement following migration or in th
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