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Peer reviewedRieger, Norbert I.; Devries, Alcon G. – Child Care Quarterly, 1974
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Educational Needs, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Education
Broadbent, William – 1987
This document is an inventory of skills identified as necessary by professionals in the human services field specializing in child care. It is intended as a mechanism whereby educators can compare that which they teach against what the human services industry feels is relevant. Introductory material discusses the process of the occupational…
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Human Services, Job Analysis, Job Skills
Sward, Sharon J. – Technical Education Reporter, 1974
Practicums make up nearly half the hours of experience and training in a two-year program training specialists for Early Childhood Education and Management. (Author/AJ)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Certification, Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers
Wilkins, Thelma – 1978
An instructor's manual and student activity guide on child care services are provided in this set of prevocational education materials which focuses on the vocational area of home economics. (This set of materials is one of ninety-two prevocational education sets arranged around a cluster of seven vocational offerings: agriculture, home economics,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Child Care Occupations, Home Economics Education, Instructional Materials
Underwood, Earl – 1978
An instructor's manual and student activity guide on child care services are provided in this set of prevocational education materials which focuses on the vocational area of home economics. (This set of materials is one of ninety-two prevocational education sets arranged around a cluster of seven vocational offerings: agriculture, home economics,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Child Care Occupations, Home Economics Education, Instructional Materials
Download full textSimpson, Elizabeth Jane – 1969
To relate the three major aspects of the home economics program at the secondary level, a curriculum model consisting of education for homemaking and family life, education for employment utilizing home economics knowledge and skills, and pre-professional education was developed by the director of the Department of Vocational and Technical…
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Curriculum Guides, Food Service, Home Economics Education
Rahmlow, Harold F.; Kiehn, Shirley – 1967
The educational implications of the research, "A Survey and Analysis of Major Tasks, Knowledges Associated with Work and Child Care Occupations," (ED 021 066) are examined. A proposed framework for curriculum development and child care contains task analysis, knowledge derivation, behavioral objective development, and organization of objectives…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Child Care Occupations, Cluster Grouping, Curriculum Design
Denver Community Coll., CO. – 1973
An outgrowth of a 3-year training project for day care home mothers in Colorado, this booklet is designed for people who recognize their community's need for training and support for day care home providers. Suggestions indicate how this model program amy be modified to fit local needs and available resources. The major portion of this booklet is…
Descriptors: Attendants, Child Care Occupations, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Child Welfare League of America, Inc., New York, NY. – 1970
The responsibility of the Child Care Worker Training Project was to train 500 unemployed people from five cities in an experimental and demonstration project designed to overcome the shortage of child care personnel. Each of the centers (Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Newark and New York) developed its own method of recruitment, short-term…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Career Opportunities, Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers
Peer reviewedDailey, Anne Louise; And Others – Community Services Catalyst, 1986
Reviews research results regarding employment opportunities for professional nannies and nanny education programs in the U.S. Describes training programs conducted by employment agencies and continuing education divisions, and two- and four-year credit programs. Relates findings regarding curricula, instructional materials, faculty, professional…
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers, Community Colleges, Employment Opportunities
Buttimor, John – Canada's Mental Health, 1973
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Educational Programs, Elementary School Students, Emotional Disturbances
Peer reviewedWarnat, Winifred I. – Journal of Teacher Education, 1980
Child care providers claim that higher education has failed to improve early childhood service delivery through training. Problems faced by colleges and universities in their attempt to improve training for early childhood educators include: (1) training direction; (2) program design; (3) discipline orientation; (4) funds; and (5) incentives. (JN)
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedNelson, Margaret K. – Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1990
Analyzes the relationships between family day-care providers and the children in their care, based on questionnaire responses of the providers. Discusses ambiguities of distinguishing between feelings toward their own children and those children for whom they provide paid care. Explores effects of the context of care-giving and relations with…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Burnout, Child Care Occupations
Peer reviewedWhitebook, Marcy; Granger, Robert C. – Young Children, 1989
Focuses on the problem of teacher retention in day care and early childhood programs. Clarifies concepts used to describe and measure retention. Suggests consequences of retention on children and parents. (BB)
Descriptors: Career Change, Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers, Child Welfare
Peer reviewedLewis, Magda – Journal of Educational Thought, 1988
Presents a case study of a high school student's participation in a cooperative education program in day care. Shows that while the student's practical understanding of childcare directed her occupational choice, her insistence on the validity of that understanding blocked her from pursuing the formal qualifications needed in the labor market.…
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Cooperative Education, Employment Qualifications, Females
