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1 online resource |
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I. Executive summary -- II. Introduction -- Early childhood care and education today -- Equality of opportunity in view of social inequalities: what early childhood care and education strives for -- Social inequalities -- Equality of opportuttity -- Early childhood care and education as a means to combat inequalities. -- Research in early childhood care and education: disciplines and methods -- Scientific disciplines -- Research methods -- Terminology -- Use of terms in intemational research -- Use of terms in Switzerland -- Early childhood care and education: a unified concept -- Ideological divide between childcare and education for young children -- Use of extra-familial early childhood care and education -- Rates of use in Switzerland -- Rates of use in OECD countries -- Determinants of the use of early childhood care and education -- Why earIy childhood care and education has evolved in economically developed countties -- Development of female labor force participation -- Immigration and fertility rates -- Gender equality -- Child poverty and social disparities -- Characteristics of effective early childhood care and education programs -- Program duration -- Program intensity -- Regulation of early childhood care and education -- Tbe role of the family in early childhood care and education |
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III. New contributions to early childhood care and education research -- How does early childhood care and education affect cognitive development? An international review of the effects of early interventions for children from different social backgrounds -- Research objectives -- Effects of socio-economic status on the development of children -- Early education and care and equality of opportunity -- Related analyses and main focus of the present analysis -- Systematic review -- Empirical evidence -- Conclusion -- Do effects of center-based care and education on vocabulary and mathematical skills vary with children's sociocultural background? Disparities in the use of and effects of early childhood services -- Introduction -- Previous research -- Nursery provision in Switzerland -- Objectives of the study and its contribution to research -- Research questions -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- A social history of ideas pertaining to childcare in France and in the United States -- A brief comparison of France and the U .S. today -- The beginnings of institutional childcare -- Initial reception of institutionaI childcare -- The evolution of institutional childcare -- InstitutionaI childcare prior to the Great Depression -- InstitutionaI childcare during the Depression and World War II -- InstitutionaI childcare after World War II -- Conclusions -- Begehren, Sprache und Bildung: Pädagogische Reflexionen über "Die gerettete Zunge" von Elias Canetti -- Aurobiographie als Bildungsbiographie -- Methodische Vorüberlegungen zum Verhältnis von (autobiographischer) Literatur und Pädagogik -- 'Die gerettete Zunge' als Untersuchungsgegenstand pädagogischer Forschung -- Zum erziehungswissenschaftlichen Diskurs über Bildung -- Sprache und Bildung -- Sprache und Bildung bei Canetti -- Canettis Bildungsprozess als Annäherung an das Fremde und das Begehren nach Sprache -- Das Begehren -- Die prägende Funktion des sozialen Rahmens -- Literatur und Sprache -- Abschliessende Betrachtung |
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IV. Synopsis -- Equal opportunities in the light of social disparities: a persistent challenge for earIy childhood care and education -- How early childhood care and education can influence children's skills -- Implications of the present research for practice -- What type of early care and education should we implement? -- For whom should we implement early childhood care and education? -- Should early childhood care and education be reguiated? -- Why should practitioners be sensitive to social and cultural context characteristics? -- What should parents know? -- 4. Prospects for future research -- Ensuting multiple methodical approacbes and disciplines in early childhood research -- Avoiding ethnocentric description of children: technological challenges -- Challenges in comparative-historical research -- Equallty of opportunity: Defining the scope of responsibilities of early childbood institutions -- Generallzability of findings from research on literary accounts -- Concluding remarks |
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Early childhood care and education has become a key issue in social science as well as in politics. In many countries, different actors increasingly use early childhood programs to tackle a variety of societal challenges. The studies collected in this book contribute theoretical and empirical dimensions to a body of research that has neglected a number of questions to date. They analyze (1) the effects of early childhood care and education on the development of children from different social backgrounds, (2) sociocultural disparities in the use of childcare services, (3) the history of childcare in France and the United States of America since the creation of the first formal daycare facilities, and (4) the interplay of desire for linguistic proficiency, acquisition of language, and educational processes in early childhood (this study is published in German). By examining different phenomena using various methodologies, these studies add pedagogical, sociological, and historical perspectives to the scholarly discourse on early childhood care and education. Contents· Equality of opportunity in view of social inequalities· New contributions to early childhood care and education research· Effects of early childhood care and education programs on intellectual development· History of childcare in France and in the United States· Desire, language, and education in early childhood· Multiple methodical approaches· Implications for practice and research Target groups· Researchers and students in educational science, sociology, and history AuthorDr. Kaspar Burger is lecturer and researcher in education and developmental psychology at the University Institute Kurt Bösch in Sion, Switzerland |
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Diss.-- University of Fribourg, 2012 |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Print version record |
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Child care.
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Early childhood education.
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early childhood education.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Droit.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Child care
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Early childhood education
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dissertations.
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Academic theses
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Electronic book
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9783658012120 |
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3658012129 |
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