An overview of the quality of interactions in Belgian pre-kindergarten classrooms

Quality of teacher-children interactions during early childhood plays a protective effect on language development, more particularly with the more vulnerable children (Dickinson, 2011). However, the quality of these interactions, especially those supporting language development, is not always optimal (Piasta et al., 2012). It is of great concern in Belgium, where there is a need to prevent, during early childhood, an educational gap that too often depends on the socio-economic status of a child’s family (Vandenbroeck, 2015). Supporting the quality of teacher-children interactions in kindergart... Mehr ...