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Nursery Tales by Madeleine
Bunting, The Guardian, 8-Jul-04 |
(Child development expert
Penelope Leach) chooses her battles carefully, but she believes the day
nursery (daycare) debate is one she now has to get into. Since 1998, she has
been co-director of the largest ever UK study of childcare from birth to
school age, Families, Children and Child Care (FCCC).
...initial findings fit with those from other studies in the US and the UK:
"It is fairly clear from data from different parts of the world that
the less time children spend in group care before
three years, the better. Infants spending as little as 12 hours a
week in day nurseries - this is such a low threshold that it covers almost
all infants in this childcare setting - showed slightly lower levels of
social development and emotional regulation (less enthusiastic cooperation,
concentration, social engagement and initiative) as toddlers.
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Behavior, Development |
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Nursery Tales by Madeleine
Bunting, The Guardian, 8-Jul-04 |
The tendency of government policy for
more day-nursery (daycare) provision to the exclusion of other types of
childcare is extremely short-sighted; it's easier for an infant to catch up
on cognitive skills later on, but they can't catch up
on insecure attachment. The trend towards more day nurseries is out
of kilter with what the research is finding.
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Politics |
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Nursery Tales by Madeleine
Bunting, The Guardian, 8-Jul-04 |
We know from research that staff in
nurseries (day-cares) tend to be firstly, more detached - less sensitive and
responsive - towards the children and there is more "flatness of affect", a
subtle but very important characteristic which means that there is no
differentiation in response to a child, a sort of blandness.
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Quality |
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Nursery Tales by Madeleine
Bunting, The Guardian, 8-Jul-04 |
The two biggest longitudinal*
studies in the world on the impact of childcare on infants have come to
strikingly similar conclusions. In America, the National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development (NICHD) published conclusions last summer that
were remarkably similar to those of the UK study, the Effective Provision of
Pre-school Education (EPPE). Both make for uncomfortable reading.
...The EPPE study focused predominantly on the impact of pre-school
education on three- and four-year-olds.
...buried in the small print it
(the EPPE study) acknowledged that "high levels of group care before
the age of three (and particularly before the age of two)
were associated with higher levels of anti-social
behaviour at age three"
*Longitudinal = Over a long period of time
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Behavior |
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