Day Care Quality and Child Development in Singapore

This paper discuss principles for the design of a tool to screen 3- and 5-year-old children’s social situation of development in Greenland. We describe this tool as radical-local, building it on a theory of child development that focuses on children´s activities as cultural, anchored in local conditions and traditions, where play is seen as the core activity for preschool children. In constructing Investigating children’s situation of development (Undersøgelse af børns udviklingssituation — UBUS 3 and UBUS 5) we have aimed at creating an instrument that can be used to evaluate children’s health, wellbeing and activities in their everyday settings of day-care and at home in Greenland. The assessment focus on interaction with care-persons and other children, not on children’s abilities as isolated and independent features. For preschool children these conditions and their participation in these conditions create the child’s social situation of development.

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Uses for Adolescents

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.69.5.666 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 69 (5) ◽

pp. 666-666

Author(s):

John DiTraglia

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Child Development ◽

Secondary Schools ◽

Day Care ◽

Direct Experience ◽

Day Care Centers

I was very stimulated by Eisenberg's article "Social Context of Child Development" (Pediatrics 68:705, 1981) and am sure my letter joins a huge response. But I am curious specifically about two excellent suggestions in the second to last paragraph: "Day care centers and nurseries can and should be situated adjacent to intermediate and secondary schools. Adolescents can not only provide irreplaceable person power but can gain direct experience in parenting as they contribute to the development of the young."

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DAY CARE: 3. SERVING PRESCHOOL CHILDREN. By Donald J. Cohen, M.D., and Ada S. Brandagee. U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Publication No. (OHD) 74-1057, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.59.3.487a ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 59 (3) ◽

pp. 487-488

Author(s):

Paul C. Young

Keyword(s):

Child Development ◽

Day Care ◽

State Of The Art ◽

The United States ◽

Government Printing ◽

Introductory Statement ◽

Department Of Health ◽

Care Field ◽

Broad Overview

This book is one of a series of handbooks being published by the Office of Child Development to "promote discussion and to improve the quality of day care in the United States," according to an introductory statement by Saul Rosoff, Acting Director, Office of Child Development. It was written by Donald J. Cohen, M.D., psychiatrist and pediatrician at Yale, in collaboration with Ada S. Brandagee, M.A. Dr. Cohen attempts "to provide a broad overview of the day care field, a basic state-of-the-art guidebook for those seriously concerned about preschool day care.

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