Learning To Be in Childcare: Mothers' Stories of Their Child's "Settling-in.".

Dalli, Carmen

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Publication Date: 1999

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Learning To Be in Childcare: Mothers' Stories of Their Child's "Settling-in."

Dalli, Carmen

European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, v7 n2 p53-66 1999

Analyzed experiences of five mothers as they settled their children into their first child care center, and presented evidence that the mothers operated with intuitive theories about what this experience involved for their children. Connected themes in the cases to themes in psychological and societal discourses about children's development and motherhood. (Author/SD)

Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Caregiver Child Relationship, Case Studies, Child Development, Day Care, Day Care Centers, Emotional Adjustment, Foreign Countries, Mother Attitudes, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Role, Preschool Education, Social Adjustment

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: New Zealand

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