The purpose of this study was to begin to understand what exactly occurs when young children and adult day care participants interact together during planned intergenerational activities. Data were recorded through field notes, video tapes, activity plans and evaluations and through the assessment of the interaction by using an adaptation of the Early Childhood Classroom Observation Scale. The presentation of discoveries includes a description of each of the 12 activities implemented between the two groups, the environment, interactions between staff and participants and interactions between children and adults. The findings indicate implications for practice as well as future directions for research. / Master of Science

Twenty-four teachers completed questionnaires and demographic data forms to describe the types of books they chose most often, where they got them, how they selected them, and how important they felt it was to expose children to good literature. A criteria sheet was used to describe the types and currency of books in each center. The teachers used a variety of sources to select and obtain books. Most teachers knew how literature aids some aspect of development. Every type of book was represented in all collections, but poetry and wordless picture books were least represented.

Expectations in six areas of concern were explored by means of a questionnaire distributed to parents, staffs, and directors of three day care centers. These included physical setting, educational activities, social development, staff relationships with children, staff relationships with parents, and parent relationships with the center. Responses averaged over 50 per cent in each category of respondent. Analysis showed that although there were areas of almost total agreement, there were a number of statements that demonstrated a wide divergence in the expectations of the respondents. This study and the related literature indicate that there is cause for concern that children's needs for consistency in child-rearing practices are not always being met.

The study was an investigation of parental decision-making regarding preschool programs for their children. Data indicated that parents investigated a preschool program beyond a conversation with the preschool director and that non-educational aspects of preschool programs were important considerations in the selection of a preschool program by parents. Parents educational preferences tended to coincide with the educational programs of the preschools they selected, although parents indicated favorable opinions of more educational variables than any of the preschools surveyed offered. Levels of education attained by mothers appeared to have little effect on educational preferences, and parents whose first child was attending preschool had educational preferences similar to those of parents whose older children had attended preschool.

Thesis. 1976. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Rotch. / Bibliography: leaves 53-54. / M.Arch.

Faculty of Education. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 243-286)

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Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes special report study entitled : Therapeutic architecture : the role of therapeutic approach to physical therapy. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

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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