Vol. 8, Issue 2, Part G (2022)

Abstract
The dynamic participation of parents in their kid’s academics in the initial years of life builds the strongest foundation and smoothen the children’s journey throughout their learning processes. The present study examined the role of school type (Anganwadi and Private preschool children) on the parental involvement, school readiness and print awareness of young children in preschool. Sixty subjects (30 Anganwadi children and 30 Private preschool children) between the age group of 4-5 years and their respective parents from Balangir, Odisha were randomly sampled. With regard to the group difference of both the set ups, they differed significantly favouring the private preschool in all the three measures. The results indicated that children of private preschool had better school readiness, print awareness and parental involvement than the Anganwadi children. The degree of relationship among the three measures was found to be significant and parental involvement was found as the significant predictor of both school readiness and print awareness.