Day Care as an Instrument of Political and Social Control.

Autor/in	Schwimmer, Barbara
Titel	Day Care as an Instrument of Political and Social Control.
Quelle	(1974), (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Child Care; Day Care; Federal Programs; Institutional Role; Policy Formation; Political Issues; Poverty Programs; Professional Services; Program Development; Public Policy; Social Problems; Social Services; Social Values; Social Work; Welfare Recipients + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Tagespflege; Politische Betätigung; Politischer Faktor; Armenfürsorge; Berufsbegleitender Dienst; Programmplanung; Öffentliche Ordnung; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Social service; Soziale Dienstleistung; Soziale Dienste; Sozialer Wert; Soziale Arbeit; Sozialhilfeempfänger; Sozialhilfeempfängerin
Abstract	Day care is an entity unto itself whose values and goals have neigher been proclaimed nor supported. Unless it examines and declares its theoretical base reflecting planning in response to what it views as its purpose and mission, it will continue to be treated as a marginal, residual institution and user capriciously as a political and social instrument. Day care's unavowed goals have been almost exclusively work oriented, spiked with programmatic doses of education and social work geared toward the prevention of family breakdown--toward the family deemed inadequate socially or economically--the dysfunctioning family. Even its original avowed goal--prevention of juvenile delinquency--has consistently been vulnerable to the whims of governmental legislation and social attitudes. Day care is a prime example of organizational adaptation to precarious values. In the 1960's, as day care itself began the push for professionalization and viable educational goals, and with the development of Head Start programs as a way of operationalizing both community control and self-determination, the long dormant concept of viewing day care as a social service emerged. The reconceptualization of day care as a social service resource not limited to dysfunctioning families falls within the purview of preventive models of intervention. (Author/JM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01