The Business of Child Care Research

1999 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 512-514
Author(s):  
Brian Corby
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Care Research

Impact of Day Care on the Child

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 225-228
Author(s):  
Bettye M. Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Conceptual Structure ◽  
Child Characteristics ◽  
Care Research ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Care Family

In the world of day-care research, the status of our knowledge is sufficiently shaky that we must continue to keep an open mind about the service. The knowledge base is growing rapidly, but the conceptual structure that supports it is flimsy and insubstantial. Fortunately, current research efforts are improving this situation. Regardless of whether we like or dislike day care, it is, like the family, here to stay. That realization alone should strengthen our resolve not to compromise on the type of service we create. We have to continue to identify parameters of quality and become good matchmakers in terms of child care, family, and child characteristics. Through such efforts, a network of educare programs that will foster favorable development in children can become a national and global reality.

The Centre for Child Care Research at the Queen's University of Belfast

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Iwaniec ◽  
Patrick McCrystal
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Care Research ◽  
Queen's University

The role of evaluation in child care research

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melvin H. Shelly
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Care Research

Out-of-home Child Care Research: A Cultural Perspective

1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 477-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam K. Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
World View ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Care Research ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
Children's Development ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Children’S Development

This paper analyses the cultural context of inquiry and research into the effects of out-of-home child care on children’s development. In particular, it attempts to show how the study of such child care has been shaped by a Western world view in which white, middle class values and social ideology are particularly salient. The effects of this cultural context can be seen in the basic assumptions of studies on out-of-home child care, in the questions these studies pose for investigation, and in the motivation of the investigators engaged in this line of research. These in turn determine the research designs, the units of analysis for the examination of children’s functioning and of the child care environment, the operational definitions of variables, and the statistical procedures employed in many of these studies. The analysis begins by examining cultural variations in societal attitudes to out-of-home child care as a function of cultural context and basic assumptions concerning childhood, development, and the role ascribed to the family and the community at large in children’s development. The paper then proceeds to examine the relationship between cultural context and its valued developmental goals and the developmental outcomes studied in child care research. The relationships between goals set for child care, cultural beliefs concerning child-rearing practices, the definition of “quality of care” and the study of the relationship of home and child care, in child care research, are also examined. It then explores the major research questions and methodology concerning the effect of child care on development in the Anglo-American child care research tradition. The paper concludes with a discussion of implications for culturally sensitive routes to studying child care.

Participation of disadvantaged parents in child care research

2005 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 581-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Joseph ◽  
M. P. Wailoo ◽  
A. Jackson ◽  
S. A. Petersen ◽  
E. S. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Care Research
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