Family Policy and Formal and Informal Care for Preschool-Age Children in Selected European Countries

Kuchařová, Věra; Nešporová, Olga

doi:10.13060/00380288.2019.55.4.474

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“…Splavcová, Kropáčková 2017;Syslová, Grůzová 2015]. V sociologických výzkumech se objevují zprostředkovaně skrze genderově a feministicky orientované výzkumy mateřství, slaďování práce a rodiny [Maříková, Lutherová 2013] či prorodinných politik [Kuchařová, Nešporová 2019;Šťastná 2019] a politik zaměstnanosti [Hašková, Dudová 2017a;Hašková, Křížková, Pospíšilová 2018]. Konkrétněji pak toto téma uchopují studie věnované přímo povaze institucí péče o děti do tří let a partikulárním tématům s ní spojeným, např.…”

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Toddler Group as a Collectivity

Jarkovská¹,

Slezáková²

2021

Czech Sociological Review

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The aim of this study is to examine the everyday life of day-care institutions and the culture of peer relationships that develop there. Interdisciplinary studies of childhood perceive it as a social construct separable from biological immaturity, and they describe a distinct toddler style of socialisation with peers. In this paradigm, participation in cultural routines is central to understanding child socialisation. Based on ethnographic observations in two facilities and interviews with teachers and parents, we explore relationships between peers, social routines, and the creation of collectivity. We focus on the perspective of adults and their perception of the children's collective and on the meanings of children's interactions. The analyses reveal that as well as socialising in hierarchical relationships with adults they also actively participate in cultural reproduction through the interpretation of meanings. What constitutes 'play' when socialising with adults becomes 'something real' when it occurs between physical and cognitive equals. Interaction with peers in a day-care facility allows a child to experience a collective 'WE', through which they are then able to to control adults. However, the creation of collectivity depends on their being conditions in place that are suitable for small children and toddlers.

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Toddler Group as a Collectivity

Jarkovská¹,

Slezáková²

2021

Czech Sociological Review

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“…např. Hamplová et al, 2003;Hašková a Dudová, 2017;Hašková a Saxonberg, 2016;Hašková a Uhde, 2009;Hašková et al, 2012;Höhne, 2008;Kampichler a Kispéter, 2014;Křížková a Vohlídalová 2009;Kuchařová a Nešporová, 2019;Kuchařová a Svobodová, 2006;Kuchařová et al, 2009;Matějková a Paloncyová, 2004;Saxonberg a Sirovatka, 2006;Saxonberg et al, 2012). Poskytování institucionální RVaP je v těchto pracích často chápáno jako klíčový nástroj slaďování pracovního a soukromého života.…”

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“…např. Hamplová et al, 2003;Höhne, 2008;Kampichler a Kispéter, 2014;Křížková a Vohlídalová, 2009;Kuchařová a Nešporová, 2019;Kuchařová a Svobodová, 2006;Kuchařová et al, 2009;Matějková a Paloncyová, 2004;Saxonberg a Sirovatka, 2006).…”

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What Is Early Childhood Education and Care For? How ECEC for Children up to the Age of Three Is (Not) Discussed in the Czech Republic

Kampichler

2024

Czech Sociological Review

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Institutional day care for children up to the age of three (early childhood education and care -ECEC) is a topic that has repeatedly provoked emotional debates in the Czech Republic (CR). However, reflection on the conceptual-content aspect of ECEC is largely missing. The article therefore focuses on this neglected area. Following Foucault's concept of governmentality, the article analyses ECEC debates from the perspective of ECEC regimes of practices as re/producing thematically specific and historically constituted assemblages of how ECEC is or ought to be done in the CR. In doing so, it answers the following questions: What ECEC regimes of practices figure in Czech ECEC debates from the 1990s to the present? What transformations and continuities can be identified from an analysis of regimes of practices? What are their implications for the ECEC system in the CR? The analysis identifies four different ECEC regimes of practices: as a socialist evil that needs to be overcome; as a service that is not a concern of the state; as a private tool for reconciling work and private life; and as a publicly funded service for reconciling work and private life. A key element of continuity in these regimes of practices is the neglect of the conceptual-content aspect of ECEC and the related absence of a pedagogical discourse that would legitimise ECEC services in terms of their benefits for children. Thus, the way how ECEC for children up to the age of three is conceptualized as a public service in the CR remains limited to the economic purposes of ECEC services.

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Childcare for Children under Three Years of Age from Mothers’ Point of View within the International Context

Grůzová¹,

Syslová²

2020

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The present study brings a discussion on institutional care and education for children under three into the professional discourse. In the introduction, the authors introduce the historical context of care for children under the age of three in the Czech Republic and compare it with the situation elsewhere in the European Union. The core of the article was mothers’ viewpoint on facilities for children under three in the Czech Republic. A qualitative probe answers the question, “How do mothers perceive facilities for children under three years of age?” In-depth interviews revealed that the mothers who were addressed have a wide range of motives for deciding to place a child under three years of age in institutional care. Ultimately, however, they seek to satisfy the needs of their child. The situation of the sample that was monitored is in many respects comparable to foreign studies, even though the Czech situation regarding these services has specific features because of its historical development. Keywords: early childhood education, day care institutions in the Czech Republic, state family policy, mothers

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Family Policy and Formal and Informal Care for Preschool-Age Children in Selected European Countries

Cited by 5 publications

References 43 publications

Toddler Group as a Collectivity

Toddler Group as a Collectivity

What Is Early Childhood Education and Care For? How ECEC for Children up to the Age of Three Is (Not) Discussed in the Czech Republic

Childcare for Children under Three Years of Age from Mothers’ Point of View within the International Context

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