Child Care as an Occupation in a Culture of Indifference.

Autor/in	Modigliani, Kathy
Titel	Child Care as an Occupation in a Culture of Indifference.
Quelle	(1993), (189 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Caregiver Attitudes; Caregiver Role; Child Care Occupations; Child Caregivers; Day Care; Early Childhood Education; Employment Practices; Family Day Care; Fringe Benefits; Job Satisfaction; Professional Recognition; Social Attitudes; Wages; Work Attitudes; Work Environment; Work Experience + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Tagespflege; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Berufspraxis; Sozialabgaben; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Wage; Löhne; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Arbeitsmilieu; Employment experience; Job experience; Occupational experience; Berufserfahrung
Abstract	The study presented in this book explores the causes of the problems in child care as an occupation and points to important social and political solutions. Chapter 1 describes work conditions, benefits, and problems related to child care workers. Chapter 2 gives specific information on the nature of the study, its goals, and the methods used. Chapters 3 and 4 analyze the study's interviews of 28 child care workers interviewed during the fall of 1987 and spring of 1988, exploring their feelings about their week and what they expect of their working life in the future. Chapter 4 concludes that the problems with child care as an occupation are largely financial in origin, and chapter 5 presents an analysis of the economics of traditional women's work. This in turn points to consumerism of our culture, which lures the richest nation in the world into treating its children with indifference, as discussed in chapter 6. Chapter 7 analyzes parental and governmental spending on child care, revealing the conflicted relationships between mothers and caregivers analyzed in chapter 8. The conclusion proposes basic recommendations for improving child care as an occupation. The appendix presents a review of the research on child care as an occupation. Contains over 300 references. (AA)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC