The Erosion of Childhood
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Book Overview
How can child care be structured to protect both the interests of children and the rights of women? Must children suffer the "loss" of their childhood through institutional care? Polakow uses her observations of pre-school centers--including profit-run, federally funded, community, and Montessori institutions--to open the "windows of daycare."
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226780058
ISBN13:9780226780054
Release Date:April 1992
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:246 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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The Erosion of Childhood
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
I recommend this book to anyone employed in the field of early childhood education however, the author gives a very opinionated and one-sided view of the cruelty and profit associated with child care. As an early childhood professional and mother of four children myself, I have seen facilities which are worse than some depicted in this book but I have also seen many which were wonderful. While I believe the book opens the readers eyes to these inappropriate and unscrupulous sites, I feel her book does not help the field and only sets it back to the era of the McMartin trials.
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