Edited by one of the leading authorities in international child
care, this sourcebook provides valuable insights from international
experiments in group child care. The selections, written by
distinguished international child care experts, explore a broad
range of successful group care settings in Austria, Great Britain,
Israel, Mexico, Poland, the Soviet Union, the United States and
Yugoslavia. Much of the material was previously unknown to American
professionals, at the time of the original publication, who, for
the most part, held group care in disrepute. Today, there is a
growing interest in group programs for children of various ages and
in settings ranging from day care programs to institutions and
schools of various types. Successful Group Care is divided into six
major parts. The first of which is a general review of successful
group care, drawing upon material that appears later in the book.
Subsequent sections present historical and philosophical issues in
group care, including boarding schools in the former Soviet Union
and the Israeli Kibbutz. Research studies analyzing the negative
and positive effects of group care for young children and several
teenage group environments are discussed, particularly with regard
to their peer effect on values and moral character. The project
also deals with group care of disturbed children. The book ends
with the most complete bibliography on the subject, including some
of the most significant works in Polish, Russian, German, and
Hebrew. This book will be invaluable to all those interested in and
involved in group child care: social workers, particularly in child
welfare; developmental child psychologists; early childhood
educators; child psychiatrists; family sociologists; child care
workers; day care personnel; and students in social work courses in
childhood and adolescence, early childhood education, developmental
psychology, and in training courses for day care personnel and
child care workers.
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