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Education Preschool & Kindergarten

Constructing the Child

A History of Canadian Day Care

by (author) Donna Varga

Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Initial publish date
Jan 1997
Category
Preschool & Kindergarten, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550285406
    Publish Date
    Jan 1997
    List Price
    $19.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781552772935
    Publish Date
    Feb 2008
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

How should children be cared for in day care centres? What kind of care should they receive and who should provide it?

Donna Varga explores these questions as she considers the ideologies and practices that have shaped day care in Canada over the past 100 years. She explains how the emergence of developmental child psychology changed day care from a simple service for working women to a complex system primarily concerned with the moral development of the child.

Constructing the Child tracks the emergence of an orthodox child care ideology in the course of the 20th century, and argues that this orthodoxy now inhibits further developments.

An Our Schools/Our Selves book.

About the author

DONNA VARGA is an assistant professor in the Department of Child and Youth Study, Mount Saint Vincent University. She has published articles on historical issues in day care, children\s play teacher education and parent education.'

Donna Varga's profile page