Developing of Early Childhood Education Program Through Parents Involvement Overview From Reggio Emillia Approach

Parents involvement is one of the most part for developing early childhood education program. This paper is aiming to see the parents involvement in early childhood education program on learning process through Reggio Emilia Approach. The readiness and the level of parents involvement will be the indicate that early childhood education program are high quality program. This study involved 10 early childhood school in Yogyakarta on kindergarten program. The Data of this study were drawn of observation, documentation, and interview. The result show that the participation of parents involved in lower level with passive activities that parents being on learning system. It shows that parents, teacher and children do not use “the three protagonist of education in learning program. The activities that shows in learning program only involve parents as pasif person, the came to school when the child having problem, any meeting, or counter part when field trip. With parents involvement in early childhood education program, the benefit that can be get not only but children, and program too. Key words: high quality program, early childhood, reggio emilia approach, parents involvement