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Places for Childhoods: Making Quality Happen in the Real World
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This exceptional book demonstrates how centers can face real-world challenges and make quality care a reality. Special selections authored by recognized child care experts enhance this collection of updated articles written by Jim Greenman for Child Care Information Exchange. Readers will be empowered by new ideas on how to make child care programs work for children, families, and staff.
Table of Contents
Introduction
I've Been Here So Long It Feels Like There
Chapter 1 - Places for Childhoods
Reflection
Reconsidering Our Part in the Lives of Children
What Kind of Place Is This?
How Institutional Are YOU?
It's the Real Thing
Children Need to Live in the Real World
What Are Friends For? Reflections of a New-Age Parent
Don't Happy, Be Worried - Connecting Up the Dots
Chapter 2 - A Great Place for Babies
Reflection by Karen Miller
Worlds of Infants and Toddlers
Places for Babies: Infants and Toddlers in Groups
Babies Get Out: Outdoor Settings for Infant/Toddler Care
Reality Bites
Biting at the Center - Part 1
Reality Bites (Frequently)
Biting at the Center - Part 2
Chapter 3 - A Great Place to Learn
Reflection
Just Wondering: Building Wonder Into the Environment
Learning Environments for Today - Part 1
Learning Environments for Today - Part 2
Where Has All the Science Gone?
It Ain't Easy Being Green
Can't Find It, Can't Get to It, Can't Use It
Chapter 4 - Creating a Wonderful Place to Be a Child
Reflection by Elizabeth Prescott
If I Had a Hammer
"Avoid the Killer Mice" or "Who Put These Outlets Here?"
"So You Want to Build a Building?"
Dancing with Architects and Other Developmental Experiences - Part 1
"So You Want to Build a Building?"
Dancing with Architects and Other Developmental Experiences - Part 2
"So You Want to Build a Building?"
Dancing with Architects and Other Developmental Experiences - Part 3
Why Did It Turn Out This Way?
How Buildings Go Wrong
Of Toys and Stuff
A Guide to Equipping the Developmentally Appropriate Center
Thinking About the Aesthetics of Children's Environments
Chapter 5 - Living in a Very Real Child Care World
Reflection
Seeing Children: A Question of Perspective
A Question of Perspective: Situationally Disadvantaged
Pillars of Security - Part 1
Pillars of Security: Making Child Care Centers Secure Places - Part 2
Diversity and Conflict: The Whole World Will Never Sing in Perfect Harmony
Living With Diversity: A Memo to All Parents and Staff
Child Care and Early Childhood Education: No "Just" About It
Amidst the Daily Sound and the Fury - What Is Important?
Chapter 6 - Organizational Reality
Reflection
Do You Have a Credibility Gap?
"Jean's Pretty Good, Kind of Affordable, Child Development Center" Versus the Child Care Trilemma
So Long It's Been Good Not So Good to Know You
Of Culture and a Sense of Place
It Seemed to Make Sense at the Time: Stupid Child Care Tricks
Chapter 7 - Places for Childhoods Include Parents, Too
Reflection
Places for Childhoods Includes Parents, Too
Looking for High Ground: Balancing Needs of Children, Staff, and Parents
No Surprises: Reducing Staff-Parent Tension
Managing Expectations: Notes to Parents
Chapter 8 - Training and Change
Reflection
Changing Spaces, Making Places
Some Things to Keep in Mind While Trying to Change the World, General Motors, or Your Child Care Program
Final Thoughts
Lurching to the Millennia - OR - Tomorrow Ain't What It Used to Be