<p> This quantitative study explored the differences in paternal and maternal involvement based on the gender of the child, age of the child (between 0-36 months), and developmental domains in an 8 week period after parents received weekly child development intervention offered by a government funded agency in Southern California for parents of infants/toddlers. A total of 60 parents, 30 female and 30 male, participated in the study. Data was collected from weekly "parent participation forms" submitted by parents to the agency for about 6 months prior to the beginning of the study. The findings revealed some important differences in paternal and maternal involvement and rejected many of the existing stereotypes about lack of paternal involvement in young children's lives. Sampled fathers in the study were found to be more involved in developmental activities in most of the 10 domains of development examined by the study. Their involvement included children of both genders and ages (infants, mobile infants, and toddlers). The findings also indicated that maternal involvement was very close to paternal involvement in some domains especially with infants.</p>

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, School of Education, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 11, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3025. Advisers: Edward P. St. John; Thomas J. Huberty.

<p> Infancy and toddlerhood is an important time for the development of emotion regulation, with interactions between parents and children critical to these processes. Negative parenting behaviors can have a deleterious impact on this development; however, for infants and toddlers in child care, the classroom environment, including teacher-child interactions, provides an important setting for emotional development and may serve as a protective factor when parenting risk at home is high. The aim of the three papers presented in this dissertation was to explore the potential for child care to act as a protective factor for infants and toddlers experiencing different dimensions of parenting risk that threaten emotion regulation development: minimal sensitivity and support, harsh and intrusive behaviors, and physical abuse and neglect. Results confirmed the negative impact of unsupportive, harsh, and intrusive parenting behaviors on emotion regulation, but child care was either insignificant in mitigating these effects or operated as a buffer for certain children only. Additionally, a review of the extant literature suggested that understanding the optimal caregiving experiences in child care that meet the unique regulatory needs of maltreated infants and toddlers is limited. Collectively, implications of these findings include the need to ensure measurement validity when assessing children&rsquo;s experiences within child care, the importance of considering the interactive nature of child, parent, and child care factors, and the pressing need for more research regarding child care teachers&rsquo; roles in facilitating emotional experiences in the classroom that meet the unique regulatory needs infants and toddlers facing risk at home.</p>

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-11, Section: A, page: 4235. Adviser: Georgia E. Garcia. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 252-264) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction, 2005. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: A, page: 0081. Adviser: Jesse Goodman. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Oct. 11, 2006)

Dissertação(mestrado)-Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Ambiental, Instituto de Educação, 2009. / Submitted by Luize Santos (lui_rg@hotmail.com) on 2012-07-14T02:46:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Suzane Carvalho Domingos.pdf: 575295 bytes, checksum: e7a85c0009e66f52d6d409c91fea3131 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Bruna Vieira(bruninha_vieira@ibest.com.br) on 2012-07-28T19:43:09Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Suzane Carvalho Domingos.pdf: 575295 bytes, checksum: e7a85c0009e66f52d6d409c91fea3131 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-07-28T19:43:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Suzane Carvalho Domingos.pdf: 575295 bytes, checksum: e7a85c0009e66f52d6d409c91fea3131 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / As inquietações a respeito da temática se deu a partir de investigações anteriores, na condição de bolsista de Iniciação Científica, através da oportunidade de sistematizar o estudo no Programa de Educação Ambiental – PPGEA/FURG, desenvolvendo esta dissertação. Mas, também, em virtude das escassas opções de equipamentos públicos para lazer num bairro popular e de quais atividades de lazer as crianças desenvolviam frente a esse condicionamento existente na comunidade. Portanto, estudamos o “lazer e infância” a partir do ponto de vista de um grupo de crianças do bairro Castelo Branco II - Rio Grande/RS, situado na periferia da cidade. O problema de pesquisa era então, saber o que elas faziam, o que era lazer para elas e verificar possiveis contribuições sobre a participação infantil. A Sociologia da Infância, ao valorizar a fala e as ações das crianças, ao fazer um enfrentamento teórico as concepções adultocêntricas hegemônicas, me possibilitaram o referenial de fundo ao estudo. Mas, também orientou minhas atividades de coleta de dados ao “deixar falar as crianças”, “ouvi-las”, bem como na análise, sistematização e interpretação dos dados. Ao optar por uma metodologia que tomasse a criança, não por suas incompletudes, mas como um grupo geracional diferente dos adultos, com uma cultura própria da infância, necessitava de instrumentos adequados as peculiaridades e características deste grupo de crianças. Os instrumentos para desenvolver a pesquisa foram as observações participantes, escrita de diários de campo, conversas informais e instrumentos que apelavam para oralidade como entrevistas que se utilizavam de recursos lúdicos. Por fim, diria que, mesmo sem equipamentos para o lazer, as crianças realizam atividades de lazer, criando estratégias para a diversão e prazer. E que lazer é brincar, fazer o que gosta, se divertir. Dentre as atividades descritas pelas crianças, nesta pesquisa, um ponto comum entre todas foram as brincadeiras desenvolvidas no ambiente doméstico, espaço no qual a maior parte das atividades de lazer são realizadas. Mas, as crianças também sonham, melhor, afirmaram suas utopias de lazer. Mostraram que elas têm muito a dizer sobre o lugar onde habitam, de como tornar o bairro mais acolhedor. Espero que o trabalho leve o leitor a repensar a forma como as crianças tem sido tratadas em nossa sociedade, reconhecendo ao final que elas são “seres sociais atuais”que podem contribuir com a elaboração de políticas públicas para a infância nas cidades. / The perturbations about the thematic has come from the previous investigations when I was a holder of an Iniciação Científica scholarship, through the opportunity to systemize the study in the Programa de Educação Ambiental – PPGE/FURG, developing this dissertation. Another reason to develop this dissertation is the low number of options of public equipments for leisure in a popular neighborhood and the search of what leisure activities the children develop facing this condition in the community. Therefore, we have studied “leisure and childhood” since the point of view of a group of children from Castelo Branco II – Rio Grande/RS, located in the neighborhood of Rio Grande. The problem of the research was: to know what they did, what was leisure for them and verify possible contributions about the infantile participation. When doing a theoretical contrast of the hegemonic adult-centric concepts, the Sociology of Childhood valorizes the children’s speech and the actions and gave me the reference to the study. Besides that, it also oriented my data collection activities when “letting the children speak”, “listening them”, and the data analysis, systematization and interpretation. The option for a methodology that analyses children not for their lacks, but as a generating group different from adults, with a childhood culture, needed suitable instruments to the peculiarities and characteristics of this group of children. The instruments to develop the research were the participative observations, confection of a field diary, informal talks and instruments that appeal to the oral activities like interviews using joking resources. Finally, we could conclude that, even without leisure equipments, children do leisure activities, creating strategies for leisure and pleasure. We could conclude that leisure is to play, do what we like and enjoy. A common point, among the activities described by the children, in this research, were the jokes developed in the domestic environment, where the majority of the activities are accomplished. But children also dream and they affirm their leisure utopias. They showed that they have a lot to say about the place they live and how to change the neighborhood into a better place. The objective of this work is to make the reader think about the way children have been treated in our society, recognizing that they are “real social beings” which can the cities.

Dissertação(mestrado)-Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Ambiental, Instituto de Educação, 2009. / Submitted by eloisa silva (eloisa1_silva@yahoo.com.br) on 2012-08-16T19:22:36Z No. of bitstreams: 1 suzane carvalho domingos.pdf: 575295 bytes, checksum: e7a85c0009e66f52d6d409c91fea3131 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Bruna Vieira(bruninha_vieira@ibest.com.br) on 2012-08-21T14:28:45Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 suzane carvalho domingos.pdf: 575295 bytes, checksum: e7a85c0009e66f52d6d409c91fea3131 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-08-21T14:28:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 suzane carvalho domingos.pdf: 575295 bytes, checksum: e7a85c0009e66f52d6d409c91fea3131 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / As inquietações a respeito da temática se deu a partir de investigações anteriores, na condição de bolsista de Iniciação Científica, através da oportunidade de sistematizar o estudo no Programa de Educação Ambiental – PPGEA/FURG, desenvolvendo esta dissertação. Mas, também, em virtude das escassas opções de equipamentos públicos para lazer num bairro popular e de quais atividades de lazer as crianças desenvolviam frente a esse condicionamento existente na comunidade. Portanto, estudamos o “lazer e infância” a partir do ponto de vista de um grupo de crianças do bairro Castelo Branco II- Rio Grande/RS, situado na periferia da cidade. O problema de pesquisa era então, saber o que elas faziam, o que era lazer para elas e verificar possiveis contribuições sobre a participação infantil. A Sociologia da Infância, ao valorizar a fala e as ações das crianças, ao fazer um enfrentamento teórico as concepções adultocêntricas hegemônicas, me possibilitaram o referenial de fundo ao estudo. Mas, também orientou minhas atividades de coleta de dados ao “deixar falar as crianças”, “ouvi-las”, bem como na análise, sistematização e interpretação dos dados. Ao optar por uma metodologia que tomasse a criança, não por suas incompletudes, mas como um grupo geracional diferente dos adultos, com uma cultura própria da infância, necessitava de instrumentos adequados as peculiaridades e características deste grupo de crianças. Os instrumentos para desenvolver a pesquisa foram as observações participantes, escrita de diários de campo, conversas informais e instrumentos que apelavam para oralidade como entrevistas que se utilizavam de recursos lúdicos. Por fim, diria que, mesmo sem equipamentos para o lazer, as crianças realizam atividades de lazer, criando estratégias para a diversão e prazer. E que lazer é brincar, fazer o que gosta, se divertir. Dentre as atividades descritas pelas crianças, nesta pesquisa, um ponto comum entre todas foram as brincadeiras desenvolvidas no ambiente doméstico, espaço no qual a maior parte das atividades de lazer são realizadas. Mas, as crianças também sonham, melhor, afirmaram suas utopias de lazer. Mostraram que elas têm muito a dizer sobre o lugar onde habitam, de como tornar o bairro mais acolhedor. Espero que o trabalho leve o leitor a repensar a forma como as crianças tem sido tratadas em nossa sociedade, reconhecendo ao final que elas são “seres sociais atuais”que podem contribuir com a elaboração de políticas públicas para a infância nas cidades. / The perturbations about the thematic has come from the previous investigations when I was a holder of an Iniciação Científica scholarship, through the opportunity to systemize the study in the Programa de Educação Ambiental – PPGE/FURG, developing this dissertation. Another reason to develop this dissertation is the low number of options of public equipments for leisure in a popular neighborhood and the search of what leisure activities the children develop facing this condition in the community. Therefore, we have studied “leisure and childhood” since the point of view of a group of children from Castelo Branco II – Rio Grande/RS, located in the neighborhood of Rio Grande. The problem of the research was: to know what they did, what was leisure for them and verify possible contributions about the infantile participation. When doing a theoretical contrast of the hegemonic adult-centric concepts, the Sociology of Childhood valorizes the children’s speech and the actions and gave me the reference to the study. Besides that, it also oriented my data collection activities when “letting the children speak”, “listening them”, and the data analysis, systematization and interpretation. The option for a methodology that analyses children not for their lacks, but as a generating group different from adults, with a childhood culture, needed suitable instruments to the peculiarities and characteristics of this group of children. The instruments to develop the research were the participative observations, confection of a field diary, informal talks and instruments that appeal to the oral activities like interviews using joking resources. Finally, we could conclude that, even without leisure equipments, children do leisure activities, creating strategies for leisure and pleasure. We could conclude that leisure is to play, do what we like and enjoy. A common point, among the activities described by the children, in this research, were the jokes developed in the domestic environment, where the majority of the activities are accomplished. But children also dream and they affirm their leisure utopias. They showed that they have a lot to say about the place they live and how to change the neighborhood into a better place. The objective of this work is to make the reader think about the way children have been treated in our society, recognizing that they are “real social beings” which can contribute to the elaboration of public policies to childhood in the cities.

Child growth reference charts have been used since the 1960s to assess children´s growth - enabling comparison of different population groups and the implementation of nutritional surveillance. In 2006, an important critical juncture occurred in the history of anthropometry and nutritional assessment, when the WHO released new growth charts for international comparison after promoting, since 1975, the use of the charts developed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and US National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). According to the WHO, these charts indicate how children should grow for the best health outcome in contrast to the NCHS/CDC charts that indicated how the average child grows. This shift from a descriptive to a prescriptive -and rather normative - approach allowed the WHO to state that all children in the world have the potential to grow and develop to within the same range of height and weight, thus implying that all children should develop in specific standardised ways, regardless of ethnicity, socioeconomic status and type of feeding. By 2011, approximately 125 countries had adopted the WHO charts for individual growth monitoring as well as the means of producing statistics for under- and over-nutrition, which would be used to assess and monitor a population's health status. This shift between charts has direct implications for how children's growth is measured and how malnutrition is assessed. The adoption of the WHO charts has immediate consequences for the calculation of underweight, overweight, stunting, and wasting prevalence. In this sense, the adoption of the new charts considerably changes the estimates to predict nutrition-related emergencies, the assessment of appropriate weaning practices, and the screening and monitoring of populations at risk or with growth deficiencies or excesses. In my doctoral research, I use Colombia as a case study to unpack how a standard developed by an international organisation is negotiated, adopted and constantly transformed once it is scaled down to a specific country. Using the theoretical approach to standards by authors such as Star, Bowker, Timmermans, Berg, and Epstein, in this dissertation I show how, far from being 'stable' and 'value-free' (as the World Bank would describe them), growth charts are political tools of measurement, charged with specific values regarding children's bodies. Given that Colombia had previously used the NCHS charts, this research explores how the WHO charts have been adopted within individual growth monitoring programmes in Colombia. I also describe how the change in charts has destabilised the production of under and over-nutrition indicators by national bodies, such as the Ministry of Health and the Instituto Nacional de Salud. My data includes twenty-eight interviews with policy makers, experts and civil servants who actively participated in the process of adopting and adapting the standards in Colombia at the national level; seventeen interviews with nurses and doctors; observation of 158 anthropometric assessments of children under five years old within six health facilities in the Caribbean region that were implementing a growth monitoring programme. By exploring how the WHO charts are interpreted and used in practice, this research contributes to the study of standards and standardisation as a field of study in its own right.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-11, Section: A, page: 4236. Adviser: Daniel J. Walsh. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 161-169) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

Previous research on children's participation has shown that children’s views are generally not taken into consideration in family law litigation. The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate children’s level of participation in the District Court and Court of Appeal rulings on custody, residence and contact. The method used in the study was a content analysis of 12 District Court and Court of Appeal rulings and the theoretical framework was based on childhood sociology combined with theories and a model of child participation. The study's main results showed that parents' mutual agreement in custody disputes prior to the hearing affects the level of child participation, and that children over the age of ten are seen to get their views recognized and accounted for in court.  Furthermore, the court’s assessment whether the child is at risk of coming to harm is more considerable than the child's right to contact with his or her parent. The conclusion of the study was that in order for children to be able to make their voice heard and contribute their perspectives in custody disputes, they must be involved. / Tidigare forskning på barns delaktighet har visat att barn generellt har svårt att komma till tals i familjerättsliga processer. Syftet med denna kvalitativa studie var att undersöka barns delaktighet i tings- och hovrättsdomar gällande vårdnad, boende och umgänge med utgångspunkt i föräldrabalkens kap 6 och FN:s konvention om barns rättigheter. Den metod som användes i studien var en innehållsanalys av 12 avgöranden från tings- och hovrätten. Studiens teoretiska ramverk bygger på barndomssociologi i kombination med en teoretisk modell för barns delaktighet. Studiens huvudsakliga resultat visade att föräldrars överenskommelse innan domstolsförhandling påverkar barns möjlighet till delaktighet, att barn från och med 10 års ålder i större utsträckning får sin vilja beaktad i domstolen, och att en bedömning om att det föreligger en risk för att barnet ska fara illa väger tyngre än barnets rätt till umgänge med sin förälder. Studiens slutsats visar att delaktigheten och barns perspektiv är relaterade till varandra i en sorts växelverkan. För att barn ska kunna göras delaktiga, måste vuxna kunna anta ett barnperspektiv. För att barn ska kunna göra sin röst hörd och bidra med sitt perspektiv, måste de vara delaktiga.