Why does a sense of community matter in early childhood services?

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Why does a sense of community matter in early childhood services?
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Introduction
The community refers to groups of individuals inhabiting a particular locality and sharing
similar cultural, religion, political leadership or historical heritage. Also, communities regularly
share a sense of dwelling for instance town. Village, the county as well as the neighborhood. It is
in the community that we are all brought up in, and we learn a lot from our communities. It is
essential that people get to understand the impact of the community especially in the early
childhood period where everything is new to the kids. This essay highlights the meaning of sense
of community more understandably, significance or the matter of community, strategies that can
be used to cherish the sense of community inside as well as on outside bases (Shouse, 2018).
Importance of community in children development regarding cognitive skills, effective skills,
and psychomotor skills. Similarly, it gives an outline of the effects of community in child
learning side.
Sense of community
So many researchers have been carried out to explain things that pertain our community,
and its importance, as well as its, contributes to the early childhood scenery. We look at the
behavioral aspects, cognitive development, psychomotor development as well as education. The
sense of community is a perception in community thinking including their social activities and
cultural activities that they practice (Kids Matter, 2014). To explain further on what sense of
community means, we need to understand the following words about the community which
includes membership, whereby one feels he or she belongs or shares some common aspects with
a particular group of people. Another factor is an influence in which one acquires some
experiences that are common in the community they belong to. The third factor is shared feelings

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towards a particular thing in life and lastly is the integration and accomplishment of needs that
the members of the community need (O'neal, Mallette, & Mancini, 2018).
Human geography in the early childhood classroom
Studies reported that early childhood education and nurturing services are accountable for
children's learning and progress because these services cherish children's mental and physical
aspects by building an outstanding sense of community. This community service helps the
children to develop an understanding of belonging and provides them with an opportunity to
explore the environments as well as learn about practices of communities they belong. Research
shows that families and communities have got an exceptional role in ensuring that growing
children incorporates with beneficial knowledge about their community (Brillante, & Mankiw,
2015). Community matters a lot in the educational life of the child as well as in the ability to
interact with the environment positively. Communities and families are relevant because they
take part in a decision-making process that includes children's interest, in coming up with
policies, curriculum development and well as plan structuring.
Learning through intent participation
Since children learn a lot from what they observe from the environment, it is vital that
families develop a strong association with communities so that children may be able to acquire
the sense of community importance (Rogoff, B. (2012).Studies show that prominent, quality care
and education excellence is as a result of a good community that can give quality skills and
impacts to the children at their early life. Consequently, families, communities, service
providers, as well as children, cannot work without unity or depending on one another. To attain
the set targets and plans for the children and their families, services are of the must because they