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Roopnarine  \nBora Jin  \nIn this study, the authors use psycho-cultural models of ethnic parental theories and acculturation to look at Indo Caribbean immigrant beliefs concerning the relationship between the amount of time children play and their early academic performance. During home interviews, fifty-seven Indo Caribbean couples offered their opinions about the importance of play for childhood development and estimated the amount of time their children both played and studied at home. The authors then tested each child for early academic performance using the Kaufman Survey of Early Academic and Language Skills. Mothers and fathers held discrepant beliefs about the value of play, and maternal beliefs about the cognitive benefit of play affected the relationship between the amount of time children play and their cognitive performance. The authors discuss the data in the context of immigrant acculturation and the impact the roles of parent and child have on determining the associations between play and childhood achievement. Keywords: ethnicity and child rearing; immigrant acculturation; Indo Caribbean peoples; parental attitudes about play; play and early academic performance.  \nDespite significant strides in our understanding of the nature of young children’s play of different cultures from around the world (Chick 2010; Gosso 2010; Gosso, Morais, and Otta 2007; Lancy 2007; Singer et al. 2009; Smith 2010), we know little of how parents in families who recently immigrated to the United States see play and what they believe about its impact on cognitive and social development. This lack of knowledge comes as a surprise given the dramatic increase in the number of immigrant children in the United States (Hernandez, Denton, and Macartney 2008) and the growing research on how much families in different ethnic and cultural groups embrace play as a way for their children to acquire and sharpen basic cognitive and social skills (Roopnarine 2011) . Additionally, there is a paucity of data on immigrant fathers’ beliefs about play and on the relationship between parental beliefs about play and children’s cogni-  \n441  \nAmerican Journal of Play, volume 4, number 4 © The Strong Contact Jaipaul L. Roopnarine at [Jroopnar@syr.edu](Jroopnar@syr.edu)  \ntive skills. The study presented in this article sheds more light on parents’ beliefs about play and children’s cognition in a group of Indo Caribbean immigrant families in the New York City area. More specifically, we examine differences in beliefs about play between mothers and fathers of preschool-aged children and assess the connections between parents’ endorsement of the cognitive value of play, the amount of time their children engaged in play and in academic activities, and their children’s cognitive skills.  \nSocio-Historical Background  \nIndo Caribbean immigrants in the United States descend from East Indians taken by the British as indentured servants to the Caribbean between 1838 and 1917 to meet labor shortages after the abolishment of slavery throughout the empire (Ramdin 2000). A majority of the East Indians, mostly males, were brought to British Guiana (Guyana) and Trinidad and Tobago where most remained after their labor contracts ended. During their indentureship and immediately afterward, the disproportion between the numbers of male and female immigrants, the living conditions in crude barracks, mate stealing, and polyandry contributed to instability in family and social life. Although religious and cultural practices among today’s Indo Caribbean families still resemble those in northern India, we may not know the full impact of indentureship and its bleak economic and social conditions on child rearing and the transmission of ancestral cultural practices. Perhaps traditional family arrangements and cultural practices were disrupted by the indentureship of the East Indians,","cbCaiusxGHa0tk3i","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiusxGHa0tk3i","pdf",211555,23,"English","# Indo Caribbean Immigrant Beliefs about Play and Its Impact on Early Academic Performance\n## Study Design and Key Findings\n## Socio-Historical Background","[{\"question\":\"What does the study investigate about Indo Caribbean immigrant families?\",\"answer\":\"It examines beliefs held by Indo Caribbean immigrant mothers and fathers about how children’s play relates to early academic and cognitive performance.\"},{\"question\":\"How were parents’ beliefs and children’s performance measured?\",\"answer\":\"Parents participated in home interviews about the importance of play and estimated children’s time spent playing and studying. Children’s early academic performance was assessed using the Kaufman Survey of Early Academic and Language Skills.\"},{\"question\":\"What key difference did the study find between mothers and fathers?\",\"answer\":\"Mothers and fathers held discrepant beliefs about the value of play, and maternal beliefs about play’s cognitive benefit influenced the link between play time and children’s cognitive performance.\"}]","Indo Caribbean Immigrant Beliefs about Play and Its Impact on Early Academic Performance | PDF",1792074567,58]