The Culture of Child Care (eBook, PDF)

Attachment, Peers, and Quality in Diverse Communities
Redaktion: Sanders, Kay E.; Wishard Guerra, Alison

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

As societies are experiencing increasing levels of immigration from contexts outside of the Western, industrialized world, child care programs are experiencing, simultaneously, increasing diversity in enrollment. A question that has been raised by early childhood advocates and practitioners is whether the former articulations regarding definitions of quality, models of relationships, and peer relations in the child care context are accurate and relevant within the increasing racial, linguistic, and ethnic diversity of the United States. The Culture of Child Care provides a much-needed integration of research pertaining to crucial aspects of early childhood development-- attachment in non-familial contexts, peer relations among ethnically and linguistically diverse children, and the developmental importance of child care contexts during early childhood. This volume highlights the interconnections between these three distinct bodies of research and crosses disciplinary boundaries by linking psychological and educational theories to the improvement of young children's development and experiences within child care. The importance of cultural diversity in early childhood is widely acknowledged and discussed, but up until now, there has been little substantive work with a cultural focus on today's educational and early child care settings. This innovative volume will be a unique resource for a wide range of early childhood professionals including basic and applied developmental researchers, early childhood educators and advocates, and policymakers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190218096
• Artikelnr.: 48793188

Autorenporträt

Kay Sanders, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Child Development at Whittier College. Dr. Sanders' research examines cultural and racial socialization practices in community-based child care programs. In particular, she examines how racial/ethnic socialization in child care programs contributes to child care quality, relationships, and children's social and emotional school readiness skills. Alison Wishard Guerra, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Wishard Guerra's research examines culture and development in early childhood, with particular focus on Latino children from low-income families. She examines the intersection of language and social development through an investigation of narrative interactions, social pretend play, attachment relationships as they relate to the development of critical school readiness skills among children growing up in poverty and in diverse communities.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgments
* About the Editors
* Contributors
* Part I: Laying the Groundwork: Connecting Social-Cultural Context,
Teacher-Child Attachment, and Peer Relations in Child Care
* Chapter 1: Children and child care: A theory of relationships within
cultural communities
* Carollee Howes
* Part II. Quality and Context in an Ethnically Diverse Society
* Chapter 2: Understanding child care quality and implications for dual
language learners
* Sadie L. Hasbrouck and Robert Pianta
* Chapter 3: "But Mommy doesn't do it like that": Considering cultural
congruency between home and child care in the development of African
American children
* Kay E. Sanders
* Chapter 4: Where the children are: Exploring quality, community, and
support for family, friend and neighbor child care
* Eva Shivers and Flora Farago
* Part III. Relationships in Child Care: Beyond Risk and into
Resilience
* Chapter 5: The fourth 'R': Relationships, shifting from risk to
resilience
* Jennifer A. Vu
* Chapter 6: Relationships and social trust in early childhood
programs: The importance of context and mixed methods
* Tom Weisner
* Part IV. Peer Interaction as a Cultural Practice in Early Childhood
* Chapter 7: Young children's peer relations with cross-ethnic peers:
Implications, limitations, and future directions
* Linda Lee
* Chapter 8: Playing pretend and ready to learn: Peer play as a
scaffold for development among low-income Latino children
* Alison Wishard Guerra
* Chapter 9: The first peers: Sibling play interactions across African
American, Latino and Asian childhoods
* Nora Obregon
* Chapter 10: Preschool peer play interactions, a developmental context
for learning for ALL children: Rethinking issues of equity and
opportunity
* Rebecca J. Bulotsky Shearer, Christine M. McWayne, Julia L. Mendez,
and Patricia H. Manz
* Part V: Methodological Implications for Applied Research on Child
Care as a Context for Early Childhood Development
* Chapter 11: Large-scale evaluations of child care as a context for
development: Implications for research and practice
* Margaret Burchinal
* Chapter 12: Observation and interview methodology in ethnically
diverse contexts: Methods and measurement of the contexts of early
childhood development
* Allison Sidle Fuligni
* Part VI: Conclusion and Commentary
* Chapter 13: Putting the horse before the cart: Why diversity must be
at the forefront of early education policy, and not remain a tagline
on the back of the policy wagon
* Karen Hill Scott
* Chapter 14: Concluding commentary: The long and winding road towards
a culture of excellence in early care and education
* Kay E. Sanders and Alison Wishard Guerra
* Index