Chapter 2 - C

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BUILDING ON A TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE

• Chapter 2 - C

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Child Care Movement
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Child Care A different path

• Kindergarten Preschool

• Child Care Movement

• Child study
• Middle class children-choice
• Education and development focus
• State monies

• Social welfare effort for poor families
• Need to support working parents
• Focus on physical care of children initially
• Federal child care funding connected to
  public policy

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Key People

• Margaret Rachel McMillan London USA early
  20th C
• Offer children and alternative to dire living
  conditions in slums
• Set up a health clinic, nursery school and
  training school
• Focus open-air, healthy living, development
  day nurseries

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Key Events

• Works Progress Administration (WPA) 1930s
• High unemployment rate (25)
• WPA nurseries opened 9-5 provided jobs and
  supported families seeking work rapid
  growthoften untrained staff
• Lanham Act World War II massive workshift
• Work-site child care 10-12 hours per day
• Kaiser Shipbuilding 24 hour nursery school
  all year long
• Comprehensive services Health services
  nutritious meals for children/mothers parent
  education play-based experiences teacher
  training

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African American Leaders
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Equal Rights Equal Education?

• 1954 Brown vs Brown desegregated schools
• Education Advancement
• HBCU operated Teacher Education programs and lab
  schools
• Parralled current trends and influences in ECE
• Major players in the development of ECE
  profession
• Evangeline Ward NAEYC Code of Ethics and Child
  Development Associate (CDA) credentialing
• Foundation for a National Movement Head Start

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Head Start
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Bringing the Stories Together

• 1960s Civil Rights movement President Lyndon
  Johnson War on Poverty
• Represents the coming together of Nursery School
  movement and Child Care movement
• Based on lesson learned from early child care
  history!

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Head Start Key Components

• Comprehensive Program
• Serve the whole child Multidisciplinary
• 10 children with disabilities early
  intervention
• Educational Program
• Bank Street model Developmentally Appropriate
  Practice
• Improvement of teacher quality compensation
• Parent Involvement Program
• Involved in classroom involved in decision
  making
• Parents as teachers increased professional
  development
• National Laboratory
• Research development of curriculum teacher
  training models
• Locally administered and controlled
• Integrity and consistency HS Performance
  Standards

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Lessons Learned

• Fundamental questions continue
• Many ideas revisited
• Emerging differences.
• INTENTIONAL teaching
• Development more than unfoldingINTERACTIVE
• FLEXIBILITY in Standards and approaches
• We are still changing!