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ERIC Number: EJ605426
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-1350-293X
Learning To Be in Childcare: Mothers' Stories of Their Child's "Settling-in."
Dalli, Carmen
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, v7 n2 p53-66 1999
Analyzed experiences of five mothers as they settled their children into their first child care center, and presented evidence that the mothers operated with intuitive theories about what this experience involved for their children. Connected themes in the cases to themes in psychological and societal discourses about children's development and motherhood. (Author/SD)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Caregiver Child Relationship, Case Studies, Child Development, Day Care, Day Care Centers, Emotional Adjustment, Foreign Countries, Mother Attitudes, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Role, Preschool Education, Social Adjustment
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Identifiers: Discourse; New Zealand