4. Mother Care, Other Care: Children's development in the context of early education and care

Question 1

what is the main influence of behaviour and attachment in children?

Answer 1

what goes in in the environments of care (e.g. home, childcare)

Question 2

what is the main influence on a child’s development?

Answer 2

their experience

Question 3

what are the parental forms of early childhood education and care?

Answer 3

antenatal care and parenting

Question 4

what are the categories of non-parental early childhood education and care?

Answer 4

formal and informal

Question 5

what are types of formal non-parental care in early childhood education and care?

Answer 5

group day care, family day care, kindy

Question 6

what are types of informal non-parental care in early childhood education and care

Answer 6

Relative, friend, Nanny

Question 7

what are the roles the early childhood education and care play in child and parent’s lives?

Answer 7

enables workforce participation of parents and potentially promotes children’s developments

Question 8

what are the two systems and early childhood education and care?

Answer 8

child care and education

Question 9

what does child care allow for the parent?

Answer 9

enables them to work and it is of a minimum standard and low cost

Question 10

what does education provide for a child?

Answer 10

promotes learning and development and high quality and resources

Question 11

how many children are there in childcare?

Answer 11

approximately 1000000. by the time children enter school 96% children in australia will have attended early childhood education

Question 12

how much is spent on early childhood education and care each year?

Answer 12

$10 billion - $7 billion by gov the rest by parents

Question 13

what has developmental science indicated about the relationship between early life and adult outcomes?

Answer 13

positive early caregiving –> better life changes. Early experiences predict outcomes in adult life: health, well-being, productivity

Question 14

what does establishing positive pathways of development result in?

Answer 14

marginal gains through higher levels of social and human capital

Question 15

what are the three developmental tasks of childhood?

Answer 15

Regulating emotions and feeling secure, getting on with and learning about others, learning the think and learning to talk

Question 16

what is the process to regulating emotions and feeling secure?

Answer 16

responsive and calm interactions -> regulating emotion, being in control -> positive and confident behaviour

Question 17

that is security of attachment?

Answer 17

individual variation in the child responses to relationship with attachment figure

Question 18

what are the measurements of security attachment based on

Answer 18

separation from other Strante situations

Question 19

What is the relation between Stress and early childhood care?

Answer 19

control levels in and out of group care situations suggest differing patterns throughout the day

Question 20

what is the process children take to get on with and learn about other?

Answer 20

being with others -> sharing, asserting, negotiating -> social success

Question 21

what is involved in social learning and behaviour?

Answer 21

getting on with others, understanding others, following social rules, measures based on parent and teacher report and observation

Question 22

what is the main place of social inclusion in early childhood?

Answer 22

childcare centers - becomes a space where intrinsic values of each person is recognised, where democratic participation is promoted, as well as, respect for our shared environment

Question 23

what is the process of learning to think and talk?

Answer 23

exploring and talking -> Discovering and learning -> educational succeess

Question 24

who are the main scaffolders of learning for children?

Answer 24

adults - tasks achieved through support and interaction with adult

Question 25

what are the three main elements of learning that contributes to cognitive development according to Barbara Rogoff?

Answer 25

apprenticeship learning, cultural variation in learning and social learning