Quality Of Childcare Services Research Articles

보육교사의 감성지능이 이직의도에 미치는 영향

In order to help the healthy development of infants and young children, the role of childcare teachers who affect infants and young children is important. However, the high turnover rate of childcare teachers can lead to a deterioration in the quality of childcare services. In this study, in order to lower the turnover rate of childcare teachers, emotional intelligence was noted as the cause of turnover intention. In addition, the mediating role of job stress and job satisfaction was verified to identify the process through which the relationship between emotional intelligence and turnover intention is connected. In this study, 224 childcare teachers working in daycare centers were surveyed, and 203 of them were used for analysis. As a result of the analysis, it was confirmed that the emotional intelligence of childcare teachers had a significant effect on turnover intention. In addition, it was found that job stress and job satisfaction had a significant partial mediating effect between emotional intelligence and turnover intention. The theoretical implications of this study confirmed the theoretical model predicting the effect of emotional intelligence on turnover intention. Also, the sequential process of emotional intelligence affecting turnover intention through job stress and job satisfaction was identified. These results are meaningful in that they provide practical implications for preparing a plan to reduce the turnover intention of childcare teachers. Based on these research results, the limitations of this study and future research directions were presented.

A Study on the Quality of Childcare Services in Shanghai Based on AHP-Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Method

A Study on the Quality of Childcare Services in Shanghai Based on AHP-Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Method

PENAMBAHBAIKAN KUALITI PENGASUHAN DI RUMAH DARI PERSPEKTIF UNDANG-UNDANG

Quality childcare services are essential in ensuring that children are well cared for not only in terms of their health and safety, but also their mental and intellectual development. Childcare services should not be thought of as should not be considered as mere care services but rather it is the key foundation for young children's education. According to practice in Malaysia, home childcare centres that care for less than four children do not need to register with the authorities and are not monitored by any laws or regulations. The issue of home childminders who are not regulated by specific laws is crucial to be highlighted in an effort to improve the quality of childcare services in Malaysia through legislative efforts. Hence, the purpose of this research is to examine the legal requirements for regulating home child care centres. Highlights of incidents and cases involving home day care are analysed to see the extent to which children's safety is exposed to the risk of danger as a result of the absence of specific laws to supervise home childminders. This study was conducted using the method of doctrinal research in the form of data collection based on document analysis and case reviews. The findings of this study indicate that there is a need to draft a specific law to regulate home childminders to protect the welfare and safety of children.

보육교직원의 코로나19 스트레스와 보육서비스의 질의 영향 관계에 대한 영유아권리존중의 매개효과

The purpose of the present study is to investigate COVID-19 stress on the quality of childcare services via respect for the rights of young children by childcare teaching staff. This study was performed to enhance the awareness and attitude of childcare teaching staff towards respect for the rights of young children, and then relieve COVID-19 stress, thereby ultimately improving the quality of childcare services. The self-questionnaire test was performed on 143 subjects. All survey participants were childcare teaching staff working at a daycare center located at Siheung-si, Gyeonggi-do. All test papers were conducted anonymously. The results of the study showed that the respect of childcare teaching staff for the rights of young children completely mediates the relationship between COVID-19 stress of the childcare teaching staff and the quality of childcare service. Finally, this study suggests the practical and policy implications.

Evaluating the effectiveness of the Kidogo model in empowering women and strengthening their capacities to engage in paid labor opportunities through the provision of quality childcare: a study protocol for an exploratory study in Nakuru County, Kenya

Worldwide, there is a wide gap between what women can contribute to the economy and what they actually contribute. One of the main barriers to women’s engagement in the labor market and productivity at work is the societal expectation that they should take care of their children in addition to meeting the demands of employment. Furthermore, those in informal employment face difficulties due to long working hours and environments that are not appropriate for childcare. To address this, Kidogo runs an innovative “Hub & Spoke” model for low-income communities. Here, we present a study protocol aimed at evaluating whether the provision of quality childcare opportunities for working women through the Kidogo model is feasible and acceptable and whether it contributes to improvements in their incomes and productivity at work. The study reported in this protocol which is currently ongoing, employed a quasi-experimental design with two study arms: primary caregivers who use childcare services were recruited into the intervention (n = 170) and comparison groups (n = 170). Both groups are being followed up for one year. We are using a mixed-methods approach. Appropriate statistical methods including a difference-in-differences (DID) estimator will be used to analyze the effects of the intervention. We expect that the intervention will improve the quality of childcare services which in turn will improve the incomes of the center providers. We expect that providing improved childcare services will enhance women’s economic empowerment.Trial registration: PACTR202107762759962.

Grandparental childcare, maternal labor force participation, and the birth of a second child: Further knowledge from empirical analysis

The declining birth rate in China highlights the need for a better understanding of the relationship between fertility decisions, maternal labor supply, and grandparenting. Drawing on the China Migrants Dynamic Survey, our analysis finds that grandparental childcare of the first child has a positive and significant effect on the second birth, regardless of whether the mother participates in the labor market. Notably, a mediation analysis demonstrates the mediating effect of maternal labor force participation, which negatively impacts having a second child. Grandparenting for the first child indirectly restrains the second birth through promoting maternal employment. However, childcare by grandparents can significantly alleviate the incompatibility of the mothers’ time allocation and thus shows a more substantial positive, direct impact on the second birth. Given the insufficient supply of affordable and quality childcare services in China, our findings indicate that grandparental childcare is a practical way to boost fertility and maternal labor supply.

Childcare services in cities: challenges and emerging solutions for women informal workers and their children

Cities present important challenges for the extension of quality childcare services to informal workers, who make up most of the urban poor across the global South. For women, who are disproportionately responsible for childcare in their own households, access to quality childcare services allows for more time to earn an income and seek new employment. This is particularly important as women informal workers struggle to recover their earnings following the economic recession brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. For children, quality childcare services can contribute to lifelong health, educational and social development benefits. This article explores the key barriers to childcare provision for women informal workers and their children in cities, and assesses the role municipalities can play in the provision of childcare services. Access to quality childcare services in urban areas can help break the cycle of gendered and intergenerational poverty as cities recover from the pandemic.

A Study on Job Satisfaction and Professionalism Perception as Predictors of Childcare Teachers' Intention to Stay

The intention to stay of childcare teachers is an important factor to be considered in providing quality childcare services. Against this backdrop, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of childcare teacher job satisfaction and professionalism perception on a teacher's intention to stay. By examining these variables, this study can help enrich existing studies on teacher education program development. The subject of the study was 280 childcare teachers working in care centers located in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do. A survey was conducted from November 3 to November 25, 2019. 245 collected data were analyzed using SPSS 23.0 by performing reliability coefficient calculation, technical statistics, Pearson correlation analysis, and hierarchical regression analysis. The results of this study are two-fold. First, job satisfaction is positively correlated with professionalism perception and the intention to stay, as professionalism perception is likewise positively correlated with the intention to stay. Second, job satisfaction and professionalism perception have a positive effect on the teachers' intention to stay. Based on these results, this study concludes that the school administration and other stakeholders who are concerned with teacher education development must consider job satisfaction and professionalism in order to increase the intention of childcare teachers to stay.

The quality of early childhood education and care services in Greece

High-quality early education and care experiences are critical for children’s growth and development, families’ ability to work, and the future health of society. In Greece, with regard to research for children under 3 years of age in early childhood education and care services, the issue of quality has been only marginally researched. The lack of available information on the quality of childcare services has been widely documented. The purpose of this study was to investigate the quality of early childhood education and care services in North Greece. Nonprofit and for-profit centers (one hundred and thirty-one classrooms) for children under 3 participated in this study. For quality assessment, we used the ITERS-R scale (Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale-Revised). Results suggested the existence of mediocre average quality.

Dialogue of Labor and Motherhood in the Context of Socio-Economic and Territorial Differentiation in the Republic of Tatarstan

Introduction. Women’s activity in the labor market, reluctance to interrupt their careers and face the problem of lowering income from work are the factors that impede the increase in birth rates and affect the reproductive behavior of women. Under the influence of ideological attitudes and material factors, women are faced with the need to assume a huge share of family responsibilities and maintain a balance between work and family. The objective of this study is to analyze women’s satisfaction with and demand for the existing state support in the Republic of Tatarstan targeted at creating conditions for combining household work and paid jobs. Materials and Methods. The study was based on the results of the applied sociological study ‘Labor activity in the structure of reproductive and parental strategies of a modern woman in the Republic of Tatarstan’. The method of comparative analysis of the microdata obtained was used to assess the extent to which of women with children are satisfied with their position in the context of the conflict of family and employment in the situation of the existing family and demographic policies in the opposition of ‘city – village’. Results. The study has confirmed the hypothesis about a significant role of the system of preschool institutions in making it possible for women to achieve a balance between paid work and motherhood, while the degree of success depends on the type of settlement. New approaches to supporting families with children have been proposed. According to the authors, the main components of state policies to ensure the balance of life and work for women with children should include the practice of flexible forms of employment, making it possible to combine participation in the labor market with motherhood, as well as access to quality childcare services. Discussion and Conclusion. The results obtained made it possible to conclude that, regardless of the type of settlement, the financial position of households and the housing conditions, as well as the state of health, to a greater extent prevent women in the Republic of Tatarstan from having the desired number of children. The materials of the article may be useful to the authorities when developing programs to optimize the regional process of regulating employment of women.

Childcare policies and services in Hong Kong after the handover: Beyond a feminist critique

AbstractThis article reviews the development of childcare policies and services in Hong Kong after the handover, gauging it with two standards: promoting the equal development of children and gender equality in our society. Statistics derived from data taken from multiple sources show that the government has been sticking to a “positive non‐intervention approach” to welfare development and that the male breadwinner/female carer model prevalent in this region was shaped and strengthened by current childcare policies and services. The current provision of childcare services is insufficient to guarantee the equal use of childcare among children of different socioeconomic backgrounds, or to ease the tension between the needs of childcare and job requirements in a family, or to emancipate married women from the domestic sphere. A “generative welfare approach” that collects fiscal resources and redistributes them strategically with a systemic mind‐set has been suggested for social policy and service planning, including spending the money in the right place, launching smart and practical policies that can achieve both pragmatic effects and ideological improvement in the area of gender equality, providing financial support or subsidies to a company for the provision of parental leave, and increasing the provision of quality childcare services.

Estratificación socio-espacial y por ingresos en los servicios de desarrollo infantil y cuidado en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires

En sociedades desiguales, las diferencias de acceso y calidad de los servicios educativos y de cuidado que prestan los establecimientos de desarrollo infantil condicionan las oportunidades de los niños de familias de menores ingresos. Considerando que Argentina no es ajena a este fenómeno, en este artículo se analiza si el modo en que se organiza socialmente el cuidado de niños y niñas en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires opera como mecanismo de estratificación social. Para responder este interrogante se parte de una estrategia metodológica que combina estadística descriptiva –test de diferencia de medias y comparación simple de medias de ingresos per cápita familiares por comuna y tipo de establecimiento de desarrollo infantil al que asisten los niños– e inferencial, mediante la aplicación de un modelo de regresión logística (modelo logit) que permita establecer significancia estadística en la correlación entre la asistencia a establecimientos de desarrollo infantil y los ingresos familiares y ponderar la probabilidad de concurrencia a estos establecimientos según el nivel de ingreso familiar.Este artículo pretende contribuir al debate sobre la estratificación y segmentación social presente en los servicios públicos, como los educativos y de desarrollo infantil, en la región.

Child Care Subsidies, Quality, and Optimal Income Taxation

In this paper we examine the desirability of subsidizing child care expenditures in a model where parents can choose both the quantity and the quality of child care services they purchase in the market. Our vehicle of analysis is a Mirrleesian optimal tax framework where child care services not only enable parents to work, but also contribute to children’s formation of human capital. In addition, there are externalities related to the parents’ choice of child care arrangements for their offspring. Using a quantitative simulation model calibrated to the US economy, we evaluate the relative merits of some the most common forms of child care subsidies (tax deductions, tax credits, and opting-out public provision schemes) in terms of their effectiveness in alleviating the distortions associated with income taxation and increasing the quality of child care chosen by parents.

A Study on the Determinants of Reuse Intention of Childcare Facilities for Infants and Young Children: With a focus on the quality of childcare service

A Study on the Determinants of Reuse Intention of Childcare Facilities for Infants and Young Children: With a focus on the quality of childcare service

The effects of expanded universal childcare support and working mothers in Korea

Despite a tenfold increase in Korean public spending on childcare over the past decade, the effect on reducing the burden for employed women has been a subject of intense criticism. This study uses national childcare survey data from 2004 and 2012 to examine how the difference in childcare costs of working and non-working mothers has changed and how the financial burden on working mothers is increasing. Although differences in costs for the two groups were found to have decreased slightly, many households with working mothers were found to have given up public support services and ended up spending more on private child services. The private financial burden was found to be greater for the category of highly educated women. The results suggest that public support should be designed in a way that takes the mothers’ employment into account, while improvements are made in the quality of childcare services.

Mitigating barriers against accessible cities and transportation, for child-rearing households

This paper discusses the types of cities and transportation environments required for increasing quality of life of child-rearing households in Japan. The author proposes a classification of barriers that child-rearing parents face in their daily lives. An international comparative study shows that the behavior of and public attitudes toward stroller users in Japan are very different from those in other countries. In addition to providing accessible environments in cities and transportation systems, improving the quantity and quality of childcare services and information, and alleviating the scheduling constraints that come along with rearing children, it is also essential to raise public awareness of child rearing and travelers with children, a development that could help increase the birth rate in Japan.

보육교사 대상 영유아 건강관리 교육의 효과

본 연구는 보육교사들의 영유아 건강관리 능력을 향상시킬 수 있는 교육프로그램을 개발하여 적용하고 그 효과를 측정하기 위함이다. 연구대상은 3개 도시, 400명의 보육교사들이며 영유아 건강관리 교육 전 후의 교육효과를 검정하기 위해 단일군 전후설계 유사실험연구로 실시되었다. 자료수집 기간은 2013년 9월초부터 10월말까지 이루어졌으며, 영유아 건강관리 교육의 내용은 영유아 건강관찰, 영유아 응급처치, 영유아 건강문제관리 세 영역으로 구성되었다. 교육은 주1회, 3시간씩 3주간 총 9시간으로 이루어졌다. 영유아 건강관리 교육을 실시한 후 보육교사들의 '영유아 건강관찰', '영유아 응급처치', '영유아 질병관리'에 있어서의 지식점수는 교육전보다 교육후에 유의미하게 높은 것으로 나타났으며, 이러한 결과는 보육교사를 위한 영유아 건강관리 교육 프로그램이 효과가 있었다고 해석된다. 그러므로 보육교사의 영유아 돌봄의 질을 향상시키기 위해 이와 같은 교육이 보수교육에 적용되기를 기대한다. 【This study aims to enhance child care teachers' ability to offer health care by developing an educational program for children's health care and safety. This study was carried out using a one-group pretest-posttest design based on a survey of 400 child care teachers in 3 cities. The educational program for child care teachers consisted of three parts: child health observations, disease management for child and emergency care for children. The educational program was conducted 3 times for 3 hours, totaling 9 hours. The educational program showed better grades of child care teachers in child health observation, emergency care for children, and disease management for children. The finding indicates that more child care teachers will adopt a health care education program to improve the quality of child care service.】

Childcare in the Netherlands: Lessons in privatisation

ABSTRACTIn 2005 the Child Care Act was introduced in the Netherlands. The explicit objective of the childcare reform has been to stimulate the operation of market forces so that childcare services are provided in an efficient way. The change towards a demand-driven financing system implies that there is no longer public provision of childcare services in the Netherlands. The emerging picture shows that the availability and use of childcare clearly increased since 2005. Due to the focus on working parents there is still inequality in childcare use by family type, yet this inequality does not seem to translate into unequal use of high quality childcare services by different socio-economic groups. Quality has been on a downward trend since process quality information was first collected in 1995. Yet, it seems likely that this negative trend is not the result of privatisation, but rather the rapid expansion in supply.

다양한 유아에게 적합한 보육실천 현황 및 발전방안 : 장애유아, 다문화유아, 영아 및 시간연장필요 유아

본 연구는 우리나라 어린이집에서의 다양한 유아를 위한 보육(장애아보육, 다문화가정 유아보육, 영아보육, 시간연장형보육)의 발전방안을 모색하는 데 그 목적을 두고 있다. 이를 위해 먼저 어린이집에서의 장애아 보육과 통합보육 및 다문화가정 보육과 영아 보육의 현황 및 정책과 이에 따른 연구동향에 대해 살펴본 후, 문제점 및 개선점을 제시하고, 발전방안을 제안하였다. 이러한 기초자료 제공 및 관련 논의를 통해 장애아 보육과 특수보육 등의 다양한 보육 대상자를 위한 포괄적 서비스 제공을 도모함으로써 보육의 질적 수준을 제고하는 데 기여하고자 한다. According to the features of pluralistic society, the needs of educare are also more diversified in terms of educare for young children with disabilities, multi-cultural background, infant-toddlers, and children who need time extended care. Recently, as the interest in these vulnerable areas is increased, providing quality child-care services have become more emphasized. Therefore, this study investigated the statuses, issues, research trends and suggested developmental directions of child care services for disabilities, multi-cultural, infant care, and time extended care. Implications and suggestions for research, practice, and policy development in the future were provided.

Crisis of Care

When the quality of childcare services is dependable, the cost is affordable and access is readily available, the initial result is a significant reduction of unrealistic societal demands on both fathers and mothers. Mothers will no longer dread the stigma of selfishness which society unfairly attaches to women who, because of eager pursuit of their careers, are perceived to be lacking in concern for their children’s well-being. On the other hand, fathers will be less pressured to earn additional income to afford the expenses that come with the birth of a new member of the family. We shall see less fathers burning the midnight oil in the office and more of them reading stories to their children at bedtime. Hence, mothers and fathers will be emancipated from their stereotyped roles of nurturer and provider, respectively. Moreover, parents who entrust their children to childcare centers staffed by trained professionals working under a standard curriculum closely monitored by state institutions can do so without being consumed by feelings of guilt or haunted by unfounded fear that their children are left in an unsafe and unhealthy environment. Instead, there is a strong sense of confidence that children are not only properly cared for but are likewise adequately prepared for the next stage of life, primary education. The good results, however, do not end here. The ultimate gain for society would be the early cultivation of the concept of equality among children who grow-up interacting with a diverse set of playmates in an environment that is supportive of their intellectual, social and emotional development. The cure to the crisis of care is society’s recognition that raising children is not a purely domestic issue confined to the private realm of the home but one that requires government support and contribution. In the past centuries that we allowed it to remain a domestic matter, we saw how patriarchy resulted in the concentration of parenting duties on mothers instead of an equitable division between mothers and fathers. When women started working outside the home, they turned to other women in the family - mothers, aunts, sisters, cousins, or older daughters - or, even outside the family - female neighbors and friends, or hired house helpers - instead of soliciting the assistance of their husbands, sometimes to keep the peace, oftentimes simply because such is the norm. Thus, we see women passing on childcare duties to other women who likewise have childcare duties passed on to other women, in an unending chain of female domestic bondage.On the other hand, fathers have long been driven to devote their time to work, and more work, to be able to provide for the growing needs of the family, forgetting that they also need to devote time to bond with their children. The result is lack of competence and confidence that they, too, are capable of caring, hence, they readily leave the task in the hands of their wives whom they perceive to be more skilled. Still a few others may continue to fear the probability of being branded as henpecked husbands as soon as friends and neighbors start to notice their assumption of childcare duties. In the affluent countries herein examined, government intervention is evident in more ways than one, ranging from strict regulation of daycare facilities and professionalization of caregivers in the United States to the grant of subsidy for childcare expenses incurred by parents in Canada which take the form either of outright cash allowances or tax credits. The same benefits are available in Singapore and in Hong Kong in even more generous terms, as well as in France and Sweden, where these are complement by a universal system of childcare that is reliable, affordable and accessible to all families regardless of economic status coupled with the provision of wage or salary replacement for parents who opt to personally attend to the needs of their children. Not all of these are immediately possible in the Philippines because of the economic difficulties that the country is grappling with. But, for the time being, nothing prevents, at the very least, implementation of strict regulation of daycare facilities, professionalization of caregivers, and grant of tax credits for the amounts spent by parents in paying for daycare services or in hiring professional caregivers for their children.