Quality Aspects of Swedish Family Day Care and Center Care.

Autor/in	Palmerus, Kerstin
Titel	Quality Aspects of Swedish Family Day Care and Center Care.
Quelle	(1991), (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; Child Caregivers; Day Care Centers; Early Childhood Education; Educational Quality; Family Day Care; Financial Support; Foreign Countries; Job Satisfaction; Municipalities; Parent Attitudes; Staff Role; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Day care centres; Hort; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Finanzielle Förderung; Ausland; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Magistrat; Elternverhalten; Schweden
Abstract	This paper presents data concerning the use and costs of center and family day care programs in Sweden. The typical center provides full-time care and has 4 sections, each with 2 preschool teachers, 1 attendant, and up to 20 children. In the family day care system, municipalities employ caregivers and parents pay the municipality. This paper discusses two studies in which: staff activities and social interaction were observed; data on staff/child ratios were collected; and parent and staff attitudes were assessed. The first study examined these factors for 6 day care centers; the second, for 29 caregivers and 110 parents involved in family day care programs. Results indicated that there were more toddlers in center care than family care, and more school-aged children in family care than center care. In family care programs, adults worked alone with a group of children; in centers, staff worked together with children. Educational activities were a dominant concern in center care; preparatory activities received precedence in family care. Family caregivers were more satisfied with their work than were center staff. On the whole, however, the results showed greater similarities than differences between center and family day care. A 15-item reference list is provided. (BC)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC