Contexts and Issues in Family Studies in the Early Childcare Education Context Term Paper

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Family Studies in the Early Childcare Education Context

Contexts and Issues in Family Studies in the Early Childcare Education Context Issue Review: Homeless Families in Indonesia

Contexts and Issues in Family Studies in the Early Childcare Education Context

Issue Review: Homeless Families in Indonesia

The purpose of this work is to first explain the reasons examination of this issue has been chosen, to discuss and review the topic and make links to journal articles. Secondly, from reading and reflection on this topic, identify a range of practical strategies that teachers, preschools & schools could introduce that would be helpful for families and children in relation to that matter. Finally this work will identify a range of new government or community strategies, policies or responses that are believed appropriate for families in relation to this topic.

Section One

. In one report entitled, "Height and weight as a reflection of the nutritional situation of school-aged children working and living in the streets of Jakarta." written by Gross, et al. (1996) is that the, "nutritional status of 89 school-aged children living and working on the streets of Jakarta, Indonesia was assessed. Findings were that seventy-nine percept of the children were children "on" the street who still had regular contact with their families whereas only 21% of the children were "of" the street who had only remote or no contact with their families.

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" (Gross, 1996) Further stated in the findings was the mother was more likely to be present in the home of the children on the street than in the home of the children of the street. Average earning of children as between 2000 and 3000 rup8iah/day in USS1 + 2000 Indonesian Rupiah) The distribution of height-for-age relative to the NCHS reference standard indicated that 52% of the children were not experiencing the same standards in growth rate as generally would occur at this stage.

Section Two

Practical strategies that may be implemented by teachers are spoken of in the work of Docket (2005) who states that balancing the place of traditional child development and post-modern approaches within the curriculum of teacher education is one of the dilemmas facing early childhood teacher educators in today's world. Stated is: "For many decades, early childhood teacher education programs in the U.S.A., as well as in the UK and Australia, have been dominated by child development theory (Fleer, 1995; Dahlberg, Moss, & Pence, 1999). Teachers should use….....

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