Intézményi és szülői szempontok az óvodaválasztásban
Institutional and Parental Considerations in Kindergarten Choice

Summary/Abstract: Parents play an important role in kindergarten choice, and their decisions are directly affected by attractive institutional services. In a minority context, this decision often means a choice between mother tongue medium education or state language medium education, which in the long run could mean a choice between identity maintenance or assimilation. In the process of elaborating institutional development, maintaining the dialogue between parents and institutions is crucially important. The paper examines how the parental and institutional perspectives differ in the case of kindergarten choice and how the relation between the partners develop afterwards. First, the study is based on an online survey among the leaders of Hungarian kindergartens outside of Hungary (734 questionnaires). Second, 1,977 paper-based questionnaires were completed by parents who had chosen Hungarian kindergartens for their children in the minority context. The comparison of the two databases shows us, among other things, that the quality of the pedagogic work, the personality, and qualifications of the teachers are the most important pull factors in kindergarten choice.

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