Power and Emotion in Infant-Toddler Day Care / Edition 1

Power and Emotion in Infant-Toddler Day Care / Edition 1

by Robin Lynn Leavitt
ISBN-10:
0791418863
ISBN-13:
9780791418864
Pub. Date:
07/01/1994
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
ISBN-10:
0791418863
ISBN-13:
9780791418864
Pub. Date:
07/01/1994
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
Power and Emotion in Infant-Toddler Day Care / Edition 1

Power and Emotion in Infant-Toddler Day Care / Edition 1

by Robin Lynn Leavitt

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Overview

A provocative ethnography of the lived experiences of infants and toddlers in day care centers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780791418864
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 07/01/1994
Series: SUNY series, Early Childhood Education: Inquiries and Insights
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 150
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Robin Lynn Leavitt is in the Department of Home Economics at the University of Illinois. She is co-author of Toddler Day Care: A Guide to Responsive Caregiving.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

Problematic Experience, Power, and Emotion
Assumptions
Methodological Specifics
Research on Infant Day Care
Summary

2. Theoretical and Philosophical Perspective

Hermeneutic, Existential Phenomenology
Symbolic Interactionism
Critical Theory
Feminism
Postmodernism
Summary

3. Power

Spatial Regime
Disciplinary Time
Caregiver Power/Children's Play
Resistance
Extractive Versus Development Power
A Day in the Life of a Toddler
Children's Place in the Social World of Day Care
Summary

4. Emotion

Objectification and Seriality
Child Care as Emotional Labor
Child Care as Alienated Labor
Unsurpassable Childhoods
Summary

5. Emotionally Responsive, Empowering Child Care

The Concept of Responsive Caregiving
The Child in Child Care
Reciprocity
Empathy
Images of Emotionally Responsive, Empowering Caregiving
The Center as a Setting for Responsive Care
Summary

6. Infant-Toddler Day Care: Review, Reflections, and Directions

Review
Reflections
Directions
Conclusion

Appendix: The Credibility of Interpretive Studies

Notes

References

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