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Informationen zum Autor Kay Sanders, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Child Development at Whittier College. Dr. Sanders' research examines cultural and racial socialization practices in community-based child care programs. In particular, she examines how racial/ethnic socialization in child care programs contributes to child care quality, relationships, and children's social and emotional school readiness skills.Alison Wishard Guerra, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Wishard Guerra's research examines culture and development in early childhood, with particular focus on Latino children from low-income families. She examines the intersection of language and social development through an investigation of narrative interactions, social pretend play, attachment relationships as they relate to the development of critical school readiness skills among children growing up in poverty and in diverse communities. Klappentext The Culture of Child Care provides a much-needed integration of research pertaining to crucial aspects of early childhood development-- attachment in non-familial contexts, peer relations among ethnically and linguistically diverse children, and the developmental importance of child care contexts during early childhood. Zusammenfassung The Culture of Child Care provides a much-needed integration of research pertaining to crucial aspects of early childhood development-- attachment in non-familial contexts, peer relations among ethnically and linguistically diverse children, and the developmental importance of child care contexts during early childhood. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments About the Editors Contributors Part I: Laying the Groundwork: Connecting Social-Cultural Context, Teacher-Child Attachment, and Peer Relations in Child Care Chapter 1: Children and child care: A theory of relationships within cultural communities Carollee Howes Part II. Quality and Context in an Ethnically Diverse Society Chapter 2: Understanding child care quality and implications for dual language learners Sadie L. Hasbrouck and Robert Pianta Chapter 3: "But Mommy doesn't do it like that": Considering cultural congruency between home and child care in the development of African American children Kay E. Sanders Chapter 4: Where the children are: Exploring quality, community, and support for family, friend and neighbor child care Eva Shivers and Flora Farago Part III. Relationships in Child Care: Beyond Risk and into Resilience Chapter 5: The fourth 'R': Relationships, shifting from risk to resilience Jennifer A. Vu Chapter 6: Relationships and social trust in early childhood programs: The importance of context and mixed methods Tom Weisner Part IV. Peer Interaction as a Cultural Practice in Early Childhood Chapter 7: Young children's peer relations with cross-ethnic peers: Implications, limitations, and future directions Linda Lee Chapter 8: Playing pretend and ready to learn: Peer play as a scaffold for development among low-income Latino children Alison Wishard Guerra Chapter 9: The first peers: Sibling play interactions across African American, Latino and Asian childhoods Nora Obregon Chapter 10: Preschool peer play interactions, a developmental context for learning for ALL children: Rethinking issues of equity and opportunity Rebecca J. Bulotsky Shearer, Christine M. McWayne, Julia L. Mendez, and Patricia H. Manz Part V: Methodological Implications for Applied Research on Child Care as a Context for Early Childhood Development Chapter 11: Large-scale evaluations of child care as a context for development: Implications for research and practice Margaret Burchinal Chapter 12: Observation and interview methodology in ethnically diverse contexts: Methods and measurement of the...
