Australian Early Childhood research

Australian Early Childhood research

Introduction

For most Australian children-home care is now a part of their lives. From the first months of life up to the time when they are old enough for school to fend for themselves, spend more and more children are more and more time in the care of other adults than their parents, in some form of day care or in an early childhood development program. Currently about 60% of American children are alien to take part in the preschool age: Approximately half attended a day care center, the others are in day care (at home or in the home of the caregiver), with an aunt, with a grandmother or a nanny (NRC, 2001). The paper will consider childcare arrangements being provided to children under the age of five years.

Literature Review

A formal training on child development seems quite a good basis for creating an environment in which we, through which the intellectual development of children is encouraged - but not so the positive impact on their social development. For example, Sydney had in our study, the professionals who had completed an extended training on child development, children, and the most advanced in the intellectual field, but were significantly less competent in interactions with unfamiliar peers. Professionals who had reached an average level in their education, children in care, both in social as well as in the cognitive area performed well (Baydar, Brooks-Gunn, 1991).

One problem is obvious how one should interpret these differences: Are supervised children in social behavior more or less competent? It varies extremely from state to state and from family to family - with a range of high quality to an intolerable degree. In the 60s, when the number of working mothers began to increase rapidly, the government was actively involved in the regulation of child care. In 1968, the "Federal Interagency Day Care Requirements," the standards for the training of personnel, safety and sanitation, health care and nutrition, educational and social services, parental involvement, the ratio of children per adult (3: 1 in infants, 5: 1 at two and three year olds, 7: 1 for four-year-olds) and group size (maximum of 10 children under three, 16 three year olds or 20 four year olds) unified. Under President Nixon in 1975 the rules were suspended as to the maximum number of children per adult (ARC, 2001).

However, all of these research results, all children in all preschool programs compared with all children being cared for at home. Scientists are have determined that correspond to differences in behavior and learning of children, the nature of the care program. Several studies have shown significant relationships between the cognitive and social development of children and measured values for the overall quality of child care services from these research results, the question arises: which relations the result of a single major factor, as are for example the ratio adults - children, or are there a number of critical variables that determine the quality of foreign ...