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Informationen zum Autor Elly Singer Klappentext Are child-care centres good for children? How can we provide good day-care? Feminists had long argued for the provision of day-care facilities so that mothers may be free to work outside the home. Originally published in 1992, Elly Singer's exciting book shed a fresh and critical light on its subject. Zusammenfassung Are child-care centres good for children? How can we provide good day-care? Feminists had long argued for the provision of day-care facilities so that mothers may be free to work outside the home. Originally published in 1992, Elly Singer’s exciting book shed a fresh and critical light on its subject. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Women and Children 2. ‘Suffer the little children to come unto me…’: The Infant School Movement During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century 3. The Power of First Impressions: The First Attempts to Design a Child-Centred Pedagogy 4. Women’s Science: Froebel, the Kindergarten Movement and Feminism 5. Laboratories of Human Relationships: The Rise of a Scientific Pedagogy in the United States, and the Role of the Nursery Schools in the Process (1890-1940) 6. Regulating Emotions: Maternal Love, Emotional Bonds and Discipline 7. Project Head Start: Efforts to Break the Cycle of Deprivation 8. Attachment Theory and Day-Care: Sensitive Mothers and the Feminist Struggle for Child-Care Facilities 9. Conclusions. References. Name Index. Subject Index.
