Assignment Pathfinder
Year 11
Home Economics
Child
Care Debate
Search Terms:
Search under the following
specific headings which relate to the child care debate on the web and in the library’s
databases. There are many different search terms which you can use, and which
will give different results, so you really need to be a detective in terms of
your keyword searches for this assignment! Please remember that we have
virtually no books on the topic, and that most information will come from
journals, search tools on the web, and through online databases.
|
Child
care debate |
Child care choices |
Child
care options |
|
Day
care options |
Day care choices |
Day
care debate |
|
Child
social development AND child care |
Child
social development AND day care |
|
Useful Books:
Try
these:
Work and Families (306.85 WOR)
Day Care Deception: What the Child Care Establishment Isn’t Telling Us
(362.71 ROB)
Online Databases:
Electric Library
journal and newspaper database
The password can be obtained from the library staff
or from the database brochure at the circulation desk in the library
Magazines
The publications “Family
Matters” could be of interest.
Look for Issue No. 79, 2008 “Does child care quality matter?”
Internet Sites:
The choice to stay at home
http://www.babycenter.com/0_stay-at-home-parents-overview_5959.bc
Childhood study - supportive of
at-home parents
http://homeparents.about.com/library/weekly/aa111699.htm
Does early maternal employment
harm child development?
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/345563
Does being a stay-at-home mom make
a different to your child?
http://www.revolutionhealth.com/healthy-living/parenting/top-concerns/child-care/stay-home-difference
Listen
to the children
One study finds little or no correlation between
early formal child care and later behavioural
problems
while another warns of the intellectual
and social dysfunctions a child might suffer if left largely in the care of
strangers.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/11/1076388432717.html
Daycare don’t care
http://www.daycaresdontcare.org
Are
there any long term effects of early child care on child development?
http://www.cfs.purdue.edu/ITSI/briefs/Long-termEffectsECC.pdf
Child
care is it good for children?
http://library.adoption.com/child-care/child-care-is-it-good-for-children/article/3242/1.html
Why child care is essential
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1997/269/269p11.htm
Stay
at home mom frustrated with media
http://parenting.ivillage.com/mom/workfamily/0,,4576,00.html
Responsive care giving for infants
http://www.rch.org.au/emplibrary/ecconnections/CCH_P_Sept2007_English.pdf
http://www.rch.org.au/ecconnections/links/index.cfm?doc_id=3428
Listen to the children
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/11/1076388432717.html?from=storyrhs&oneclick=true
Comparing child care options
http://www.careforkids.com.au/articlesv2/article.asp?ID=54
Family Day Care Council
http://www.familydaycare.com.au
http://www.childcarecanada.org/pubs/op7/op7.pdf
Child Care
Quality: Does it Matter, and Does it Need to be Improved?
http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/ccquality00/ccqual.htm#outcomes
Maternal
employment and time with children: dramatic change or surprising continuity?
http://www.jstor.org/pss/2648068
National
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/new/releases/child_care.cfm
AIFS:The Role of Family in
Social Exchange: A Case Study of Child Care Services
http://www.aifs.org.au/institute/afrc6papers/millward.html
Zero to Three: Parents are the Real Experts
http://www.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=key_childcare
Family and Home Network:
Benefits of Being There
http://www.familyandhome.org/topics/benefits.htm
Mother-Child Interaction and
Cognitive Outcomes Associated with Early Child Care: Results of the NICHD Study
http://www.wellesley.edu/WCW/CRW/TECC/new.html
KidSource Online: Infant
Child Care
http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/infant_care.html
Child Care
http://www.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=key_childcare
KidSource Online: Infant
Day Care – The Critical Issues
http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content2/infant_day_care.html
Child Care Advocacy Forum: The Future Begins Today
http://www.cccabc.bc.ca/res/pdf/futurebeginstoday.pdf
Child Care
http://www.childcarecanada.org/pubs/other/FF/Chap%206.pdf
http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/familydevelopment/components/7268b.html
The Future of Children: What Infants and Toddlers Need – High
Quality Child Care
http://www.futureofchildren.org/usr_doc/foc11-1g3.pdf
National Institute of Health News Release: Study of Early
Child Care
New research
being released this week indicates that the quality of child care for very
young children does matter for their cognitive development
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/apr97/nichd-03.htm
KidSource
Online: Infant Child Care
Infants of
full-time employed mothers were more likely to exhibit an insecure maternal
attachment relationship than infants of part-time employed and nonemployed mothers
http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/infant_care.html
Director’s Report
- Mixed Messages About Children
The most relevent information can be found in the
heart of the article
“Yet the message for mothers is that paid employment is
preferable to full-time child attention, that a child care centre is necessary
(if not desirable) because paid work is better than unpaid”
http://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/pubs/fm1/fm27/de.html
Quality Care Does
Mean Better Child Outcomes
http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncedl/pages/spotlt2.cfm
Focus on the
social development outcomes.
The NICHD Child Care Study Results: What
Do They Mean for Parents, Child-care Professionals, Employers and Decision
makers?
Caregivers
with higher levels of education and who worked in settings with fewer children
per adult were
more sensitive and responsive to
children and provided a more stimulating environment
http://www.nncc.org/Research/NICHD.ECIresponse.html
Child Care in
Cultural Context: Issues for New Research
http://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/pubs/RP22.html#congruence
This site focuses
on the cultural context of child care, but there are some important points made
about the differences in
attitudes between parents and carers.
Child social development. Read the articles below to help you
determine if child care can provide the necessary environment to enable
toddlers to reach their optimum social development.
Developing
social competence. Early Childhood
The development
of social competence in children
http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-925/social.htm
Developmental
milestones. Socialisation
http://www.babycenter.com.au/baby/development/socialandemotional/socialisation
Understanding
growth and development patterns of children. Look for emotional and
social/emotional development
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/family/350-055/350-055.html
A guide to promoting
resilience in children.
http://resilnet.uiuc.edu/library/grotb95b.html#chapter2
Brain Development. Note in particular “Early care and education”
http://www.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=key_brain&JServSessionIdr007=05ei7q3055.app6a
Responsive care giving for infants
http://www.rch.org.au/emplibrary/ecconnections/CCH_P_Sept2007_English.pdf
http://ohioline.osu.edu/asc-fact/
Child Development
Institute: General Development Sequence – Toddler Through to Preschool
http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/development/devsequence.shtml