ED385343 PS022910
Title: Children at Home and in Day Care.
Author(s): Clarke-Stewart, K. Alison; And Others
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 0-8058-1484-1
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 10 Industrial Avenue,
Mahwah, NJ 07430 ($59.95).
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Reports--Research (143)
Geographic Source: U.S.; New Jersey
Journal Announcement: RIEDEC1995
This book
reports on a study examining the relative effects of family and
day care experiences on young children. The study explored the full
range of children's experiences in a wide variety of settings and
examined how those experiences are related to the children's development.
Chapter 1 presents and compares different forms of contemporary
day care and discusses their influences on child development. Chapter
2 presents the purpose and design of the study, while chapter 3
discusses the methods used for observing children's experiences
in different settings, and the variables created to represent those
experiences. Chapter 4 reviews the observed experiences and how
they differed according to the setting. Chapter 5 discusses the
links between the observations of children's experience at home
and in day care. Chapter 6 presents the methods used for assessing
children's abilities and behavior in the different domains. Chapters
7 through 12 treat the results of linking
experience and development for each domain in turn: family predictors,
day care predictors, social competence, sociability with mother,
compliance, and peer relations. Chapter 13 presents the conclusions
that are drawn from the study and makes some final comments. Contains
over 250 references. (AA)
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship; Child Development; Comparative
Analysis; *Day Care; Day Care Centers; *Day Care Effects; Early
Childhood Education; *Early Experience; *Family Day Care; *Family
Influence; Longitudinal Studies; Outcomes of Education; Parent Child
Relationship; Parents; *Predictor Variables; Social Adjustment;
Social Development
