Nurseries - Educational or Social Institutions?

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-84
Author(s):  
Zita Baďuríková
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
School Education ◽  
Educational Training ◽  
European Context ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Children Education

The paper presents recent approaches to institutional education of children under three years in a wider international and European context. It introduces concepts of creation of educational programs for children in some countries of Europe and the USA. Unlike in former socialist countries, the issue of young children education is in focus in countries with a developed system of pre-school education, including educational training of people working in various types of nurserie.

scholarly journals Young children’s information-seeking practices in center-based childcare

2021 ◽  
pp. 096100062096216
Author(s):  
Sarah Barriage
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Photo Elicitation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Information Practices ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Concept Of Information ◽  
Classroom Resources

Many children in the USA spend a significant amount of time in center-based childcare. However, research has yet to explore their information practices in this setting. This study investigates young children’s perceptions of the concept of information and their own information-seeking practices within the context of their day care classroom. The participants included 13 children between three and five years of age. Data was collected using participant observation, semi-structured interviews, child-led photo tours, and photo-elicitation interviews. The findings indicate that the children did not perceive the concept of information in a manner consistent with adult understandings of the term, and that they engaged in information-seeking related to finding out new things on their own, through interactions with others, and through classroom resources, activities, and routines. The findings have implications for both researchers and practitioners working with young children.

Early Childhood Teachers’ Concept Map of Gifted Young Children Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-65
Author(s):  
Kyoung Ha Hwang ◽  
Sae Byeol Lee ◽  
Hee Sook Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Concept Map ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Children Education

Parents as Para-Professionals in the Haarlem Pre-School Project

1975 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 34-41
Author(s):  
Peter Elbers
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Working Class ◽  
School Education ◽  
School Experience ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
School Project ◽  
The Family ◽  
School Careers ◽  
Future School

The origins of this project stemmed from the convictions of a group of parents who believed on the importance of pre-school education and parental involvement in it for the future school careers of their children. This way have been long accepted by some sections of the community who have made the effort to provide a stimulating enviroment for their young children, but it is by no means as common a view amoung working class people who may have had little eductaion themselves. The levels of wages, the time available, the cultural patterns of the family, thier own school experience and expectations for their children are all important factors in determining pople’s attitudes towards pre-schooling.

Nature's Place in the Technological Transformation of Agriculture: Some Reflections on the Recombinant BST Controversy in the USA

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 1151-1163 ◽  
Author(s):  
F H Buttel
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Dairy Products ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Commodity Chain ◽  
Technological Transformation ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Usa

In this paper I focus on the interactions between technological transformation of agrofood systems and the construction of discursive linkages between rurality and nature. I draw on Giddens's notion of time–space distanciation to show how the spatial configuration of modern agrofood systems creates possibilities but also imposes limits on discourses about agriculture and nature. Using some observations from the bovine somatotropin (BST) experience, I demonstrate that prospective technological transformations significantly influence the struggle for ‘control of the natural’ among the diversity of actors in the dairy-products commodity chain. Proponents and opponents of BST aimed to occupy the discursive high ground of ‘the natural’ in making their appeals to farmers, consumers, and policymakers. As it became clearer in the late 1980s that BST would not prove to be the revolutionary biotechnology product that proponents had originally claimed, both proponents and opponents significantly altered the substance of their discursive claims about what constitutes the natural. This suggests that vocabularies of nature are a flexible modality for contesting the course of social change in agrofood systems. Actors in the BST controversy not only contested the natural status of artifacts and practices such as the use of BST technology, they did so with respect to the social institutions of agricultural research and agricultural policy as well. Some legacies of the struggle for control of the natural in US dairying and in agrofood systems in general are discussed.

Control of pneumococcal disease in the United Kingdom – the start of a new era

2006 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 975-980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart C. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Pneumococcal Disease ◽  
Pneumococcal Infection ◽  
Immunization Schedule ◽  
Childhood Immunization ◽  
Immunization Policy ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

In 2000, a multi-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, known as Prevnar, was licensed for use in infants and young children in the USA. The subsequent introduction of the vaccine into the childhood immunization schedule in that country led to a significant decrease in pneumococcal disease. The vaccine is effective against invasive and non-invasive pneumococcal infection, can be used in young children as well as adults and, like all conjugate vaccines, provides long-lasting immunity. Moreover, it reduces the incidence of antibiotic resistance because a number of resistant serotypes are targeted by the vaccine. Prevnar, also known as Prevenar, has since been licensed in numerous countries, including the UK. On 8 February 2006, the Departments of Health in England, Scotland and Wales announced the inclusion of Prevenar in the childhood immunization schedule. This announcement has important implications for pneumococcal infection, disease surveillance and immunization policy in the UK.

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