PROFESSIONALIZATION OF GERMANY’S DAY CARE SYSTEM FOR YOUNG CHILDREN - ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRACTITIONERS, STRUCTURES AND CONTEXTS

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.

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Parental Decision-Making for Surgery and Anesthesia in Young Children

Western Journal of Nursing Research ◽

10.1177/01939459211021622 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 019394592110216

Author(s):

Audrey Rosenblatt ◽

Michael Kremer ◽

Olimpia Paun ◽

Barbara Swanson ◽

Rebekah Hamilton ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Decision Making ◽

Young Children ◽

Cognitive Processing ◽

Emotional Processing ◽

Theory Analysis ◽

Parental Decision ◽

Parental Decision Making ◽

Health Care Context ◽

The Relationship

Millions of young children undergo surgery and anesthesia each year, yet there is a lack of scientific consensus about the safety of anesthesia exposure for the developing brain. Also poorly understood is parental anesthesia-related decision-making and how neurotoxicity information influences their choices. The theoretical model of parental decision-making generated in this research explicates this process. Interviews with 24 mothers yielded a theoretical framework based on their narratives developed using a qualitative grounded theory analysis. Five major themes emerged from these interviews: emotional processing, cognitive processing, relationships as resources, the mother/child dyad, and the health care context. Mothers described a non-linear, iterative process; they moved fluidly through emotional and cognitive processing supported by relationships as resources and influenced by the health care context. A key element was the subtheme of the medical translator, an individual who provided context and information. The mother/child dyad grounded the model in the relationship with the child.

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The role of production practice in lexical and phonological development – a commentary on Stoel-Gammon's ‘Relationships between lexical and phonological development in young children’*

Journal of Child Language ◽

10.1017/s0305000910000504 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. 41-45 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

MARILYN VIHMAN ◽

TAMAR KEREN-PORTNOY

Keyword(s):

Individual Differences ◽

Young Children ◽

Current Work ◽

Phonological Development ◽

Phonological Learning ◽

Production Practice ◽

The Relationship

Carol Stoel-Gammon has made a real contribution in bringing together two fields that are not generally jointly addressed. Like Stoel-Gammon, we have long focused on individual differences in phonological development (e.g. Vihman, Ferguson & Elbert, 1986; Vihman, Boysson-Bardies, Durand & Sundberg, 1994; Keren-Portnoy, Majorano & Vihman, 2008). And like her, we have been closely concerned with the relationship between lexical and phonological learning. Accordingly, we will focus our discussion on two areas covered by Stoel-Gammon (this issue) on which our current work may shed some additional light.

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