Orientador: Beatriz Belluzzo Brando Cunha / Banca: Tizuko Morchida Kishimoto / Banca: José Luiz Guimarães / Resumo: Com objetivo de investigar a maneira como a historicidade exerce influência sobre as práticas empreendidas com crianças de 0 a 3 anos nos espaços educativos a elas destinados, o presente estudo buscou resgatar a história particular, bem como os propósitos que inspiraram a fundação de dois tipos de instituições educativas infantis da cidade de Americana, localizada no interior paulista. A pesquisa foi realizada em uma creche da rede pública municipal e uma creche filantrópica nas quais, a partir de uma perspectiva etnográfica, passamos a realizar observações cotidianas, análises documentais e entrevistas com educadores e coordenadores a fim de des-velar concepções de infância e educação infantil construídas historicamente presentes, ainda, no cotidiano destas instituições. A partir dos dados coletados, pudemos observar algumas tendências que orientaram nossa análise: cada instituição apresenta uma grande meta que parece estar diretamente rela-cionada à sua história de fundação sendo ligadas a ações caritativas-religiosas e direito da mãe trabalhadora; as concepções de criança, bem como de aprendizado, parecem indicar para uma visão etapista de desenvolvimento e/ou de uma criança do futuro, incompleta que ainda precisa de treinos para se desenvolver; a relação das profissionais com a instituição fica tensa quando a cobrança por parte dos pais é mais nítida e, ou seja, quando os pais já possuem a convicção de que o espaço da creche deve unir cuidados e ações educativas, aqui, ainda podemos mencionar as exigências em ...(Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: By the objective of investigating the way the history influences the practices undertaken on children from the age 0 to the age 3 in educative spaces and destined to them, this research has attempted to bring off the particular history, and also the objectives that influenced the foundation of two kinds of children educative institution in Americana city, located in the countryside of São Paulo State. The research was made in a public day care center maintained by the city and a philanthropic one, which, on an etnografic perspective, we may start realiseing quotidian observations, documental analyses and interview with educators and coordenators in order to unveil conceptions of childhood and child education built historicatly presented, still, in the quotidian of these institutions. Starting with collected information, we could observe some tendencies that guide our analyses: each institution presents a great goal that seems to be strongly related to its history of foundation, being linked to caritative-religious actions and a right to the worker mothers; the children conceptions, as well the learning process, seem to indicate to a steply view of development and/or from a child of the future, incomplete that still need trainings to develop himself; the reaction of the professional employees with the institution gets tense when the exactions form the parents are even more clear and, therefore, when they assume that the day care center space must join cares ...(Complete abstract, click electronic address below) / Mestre

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:39:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ivoneide Gomes Figueiredo.pdf: 1176918 bytes, checksum: 3c00bd152380d61845666f3af609b450 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-08-05 / Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa / In the last few decades, the great number of inserted children in institutions of infantile education brought a new permeador element of the infantile development: the daily experience in collective environments. Considering the long daily permanence of children in day-care centers one becomes necessary a supervision of the infantile development therefore the years you initiate are crucial to the acquisition of abilities and knowledge. Thus, this study aimed like general objective evaluate and describe the structural and functional conditions of day care centers in the city of Barueri-SP, and like specific objectives: 1) assess and describe the 21 day care centers in the city based on the eight areas proposed by the instrument Child Care Facility Schedule (CCFS), namely: physical environment, health and safety; nutrition and food service, administration, staff-family interaction, staff-children interaction, observable child behaviour, curriculum; and 2) verify differences between the 21 day care centers in each area proposed by CCFS. In this research, was used to qualitative and quantitative methodology with a descriptive and exploratory. The obtained results through the observation of standard operational routine of all day care centers surveyed, with respect to activities periods, type of meal offered, enrollment procedures, criteria for admission, administrative guidance, administrative staff, denote a well defined policy in strategic level. The results allow us to say that statistically all day care centers are at levels commensurate with the quality standards proposed by the instrument CCFS. However, we can see that some items require more attention on the issue of provision of quality care offered in Barueri, namely: 57.1% of centers had "no existing condition" for the group size and 28.6% for the ratio adult / child, both in the Administration area, with indicators that exceded those given by the World Health Organization. In the Health and safety area "objectionable condition" in 38.1% and 23.8% on items related to training in first aid and the requirement for annual physical examinations for employees; in Physical Environment area, 23.8% of centers scored "objectionable condition" referring to insufficient space for the number of children present. The items that deserve attention by the City Department of Education and aimed in this research, are uncommon and of easy solution, and will be subject to devolution to the city lodged by the researcher, as a contribution in the pursuit of improving the quality of services, particularly services related to early childhood education. / Nas últimas décadas, o grande número de crianças inseridas em instituições de educação infantil trouxe um novo elemento permeador do desenvolvimento infantil: a vivência cotidiana em ambientes de coletividade. Considerando a longa permanência diária de crianças em creches faz-se necessário uma supervisão do desenvolvimento infantil, pois os anos iniciais são cruciais à aquisição de habilidades e conhecimentos. Assim, a presente pesquisa teve como objetivo geral avaliar e descrever as condições estruturais e funcionais das creches do município de Barueri-SP e como objetivos específicos: 1) avaliar e descrever as 21 creches do município com base nas 8 áreas propostas pelo instrumento Child Care Facility Schedule (CCFS), a saber: Ambiente físico; Saúde e segurança; Nutrição e refeições; Administração; Interação técnico-família; Interação técnico-criança; Comportamento observável das crianças e Currículo; e 2) verificar a existência de diferenças entre as 21 creches dentro de cada área proposta pelo CCFS. Para fins desta pesquisa, a metodologia adotada teve caráter quantiqualitativo, do tipo descritiva e exploratória. Os resultados obtidos através da observação apontam um padrão operacional na rotina de todas as creches pesquisadas, com relação aos horários, tipo de alimentação oferecido, procedimentos para matrículas, critérios para admissão, orientação administrativa, quadro de funcionários, que denotam uma política bem definida em nível estratégico. Os resultados obtidos estatisticamente nos permitem afirmar que todas as creches se encontram em patamares condizentes com os padrões de qualidade propostos pelo instrumento CCFS. Porém, podemos verificar que alguns itens requerem mais atenção na questão da prestação de cuidados de qualidade oferecidos em Barueri, a saber: 57,1% das creches apresentaram condição não existente para a dimensão do grupo (número de crianças que estão juntas, na mesma sala) e 28,6% para a razão/adulto criança, ambos na área Administração, com condições excedentes ao indicado pela Organização Mundial de Saúde. Na área Saúde e Segurança, as creches apresentaram condição questionável em 38,1 % e 23,8% em itens referentes ao treino em primeiros socorros e a exigência de exames físicos anuais aos funcionários; na área Ambiente Físico, 23,8% das creches pontuaram condição questionável referindo-se ao espaço insuficiente para o número de crianças presentes. Os itens que merecem atenção por parte da Secretaria Municipal de Educação e apontados nesta pesquisa são pontuais e de fácil solução e serão objeto de devolutiva apresentada ao município pela pesquisadora, como contribuição em busca da melhoria da qualidade da prestação de serviços, em especial aos serviços referentes à Educação Infantil.

The history of day care licensing standards in Texas was traced from the beginnings in voluntary welfare organizations to the 1976 revisions. The jurisdictional foundations of day care licensing was presented in a summary of the related legislation passed in Texas during the years from 1848 to 1975. Categories of licensing requirements in the different sets of standards promulgated in Texas were compared. The attempt was made to derive a contextual milieu of social, political and educational factors which influenced Texas day care legislation and the development of licensing standards. It was recommended that funds are essential to adequate enforcement of licensing standards. In addition, to facilitate acculturation of day care licensing, consultation and training efforts should expand proportionately to the expansion of day care. The fact that issues related to specific requirements surfaced repeatedly in the different decades studied, a need for carefully controlled research to validate the individual requirements was indicated.

This study examined a neglected area in long term care and adult day care research: staff development. The specific purposes of this study were to describe the provision of a comprehensive staff development program in adult day care centers in Virginia in order to (a) differentiate those centers providing only the minimum required inservice training from those centers providing more comprehensive staff development programs and (b) define what meaning is placed upon staff education programs by center administrators. A mail survey design was used for this study. The questionnaire developed for the study has three sections: (a) center characteristics, (b) staff characteristics, and (c) the meaning of staff development. Quantitative analysis was conducted on the first two sections while qualitative analysis was used to examine the final section. A conceptual model for adult day care staff development programs was also developed for the study. The model was used to compare the staff development programs across adult day care centers in Virginia. The sample included all licensed adult day care center administrators in Virginia (n=43). The total response rate for this survey was 88%. Results were discussed in terms of the provision of staff development programs, as well as the meaning that was placed on staff development by the responding center administrators. The results showed that much importance is placed upon staff development programs by the center administrators and they follow through with this by providing a well rounded staff development program for their staff. / Master of Science

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This study draws on the theory and methodology of many fields to propose an alternative way of conceptualizing and conducting inquiry into the issues of daycare center design. The application of this approach is then illustrated using the collected data to design an actual childcare facility. Qualitative interviews were conducted with directors and selected staff members of two different childcare centers, as well as with the parents of children currently attending each center. Analysis of the data collected reveals that there are many factors which shape and affect daycare center design options, including site size, finances, geographic location, number of children to be cared for and staff size. The objective of this study was to design a prototypical proprietary daycare center in Christiansburg, Virginia for a client whose requirements were for a single building to accommodate three groups of users: 1. approximately 122 children from the ages of 6 weeks to 12 years, 2. the adults needed to staff the center, and 3. The parents of the children attending the center. Design features that were found to be advantageous to the development of a daycare center in the course of field study (i.e., full height walls for sound control, ample storage, easily reconfigured furnishings, natural interior lighting, staff break room) were incorporated into the proposed structure. This research contributes to a more complete understanding of daycare center design problems which affect the adults who interact with the center, as well as the children who attend the center. / Master of Science