Solving The Childcare And Flexibility Puzzle

Author : Arthur C. Emlen,Arthur Emlen
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781599428680

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Solving the Childcare and Flexibility Puzzle by Arthur C. Emlen,Arthur Emlen Pdf

This book shines a light on the dynamics of parental decisions and discovers a remarkable ability. Disputing idealized professional measures as irrelevant to the everyday life of most families, Professor Emlen describes detailed evidence from his own research and arrives at a simple but profound conclusion: that parents have a propensity to make the best choices possible. It all depends on how much flexibility they can marshal from work schedules, shared family efforts, and helpful providers of childcare. Based on successful measurement of childcare quality from a parent's point of view, the findings show that as parents solve their flexibility puzzle, the more flexibility from any or all sources, the better the quality of care. Emlen gives the familiar concept of flexibility new scope and depth, as a necessity for any planned activity, as a resource that comes from multiple sources within the immediate environment, and as a creative problem-solving ability that parents possess. This satisfying explanation of parental choice contradicts prevailing opinion and has pivotal importance for policy. Emlen traces how an influential vanguard within the childcare profession gave parents a bum rap that led to bad policy, as advocates sought a system of childcare that left parents behind and ignored the vulnerability of families. Emlen charts a new direction, with policies that will increase the wellsprings of flexibility, while respecting freedom of parental choice of childcare. Many readers will hail a book that makes a case for policy that strengthens the wellbeing of families, improves employment policies, and offers ways to enhance the big picture of childcare in America in all its diversity. This book will be read by those interested in an ecological study of the nature and dynamics of parental judgment and decisions-particularly in the author's fundamental hypothesis explaining the relationship between flexibility and optimal choice. The book will be read also by corporate managers of human resources, early childhood experts, childcare professionals, and by working parents themselves, who will appreciate the book's thoughtful defense of parental choice.

Author : Eva Lloyd,Helen Penn
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781847429346

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Childcare markets by Eva Lloyd,Helen Penn Pdf

This highly topical book presents recent, significant research from eight nations where childcare markets are the norm.

Author : Marc H. Bornstein
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 2616 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781506353319

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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development by Marc H. Bornstein Pdf

Lifespan human development is the study of all aspects of biological, physical, cognitive, socioemotional, and contextual development from conception to the end of life. In approximately 800 signed articles by experts from a wide diversity of fields, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development explores all individual and situational factors related to human development across the lifespan. Some of the broad thematic areas will include: Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood Aging Behavioral and Developmental Disorders Cognitive Development Community and Culture Early and Middle Childhood Education through the Lifespan Genetics and Biology Gender and Sexuality Life Events Mental Health through the Lifespan Research Methods in Lifespan Development Speech and Language Across the Lifespan Theories and Models of Development. This five-volume encyclopedia promises to be an authoritative, discipline-defining work for students and researchers seeking to become familiar with various approaches, theories, and empirical findings about human development broadly construed, as well as past and current research.

Author : Laura Bernardi,Dimitri Mortelmans
Publisher : Springer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319632957

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Lone Parenthood in the Life Course by Laura Bernardi,Dimitri Mortelmans Pdf

Lone parenthood is an increasing reality in the 21st century, reinforced by the diffusion of divorce and separation. This volume provides a comprehensive portrait of lone parenthood at the beginning of the XXI century from a life course perspective. The contributions included in this volume examine the dynamics of lone parenthood in the life course and explore the trajectories of lone parents in terms of income, poverty, labour, market behaviour, wellbeing, and health. Throughout, comparative analyses of data from countries as France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Hungary, and Australia help portray how lone parenthood varies between regions, cultures, generations, and institutional settings. The findings show that one-parent households are inhabited by a rather heterogeneous world of mothers and fathers facing different challenges. Readers will not only discover the demographics and diversity of lone parents, but also the variety of social representations and discourses about the changing phenomenon of lone parenthood. The book provides a mixture of qualitative and quantitative studies on lone parenthood. Using large scale and longitudinal panel and register data, the reader will gain insight in complex processes across time. More qualitative case studies on the other hand discuss the definition of lone parenthood, the public debate around it, and the social and subjective representations of lone parents themselves. This book aims at sociologists, demographers, psychologists, political scientists, family therapists, and policy makers who want to gain new insights into one of the most striking changes in family forms over the last 50 years. This book is open access under a CC BY License.

Author : Tammy D. Allen,Lillian T. Eby
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199337552

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The Oxford Handbook of Work and Family by Tammy D. Allen,Lillian T. Eby Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Work and Family examines contemporary work-family issues from a variety of important viewpoints. By thoroughly examining where the field has been and where it is heading, this important volume offers razor-sharp reviews of long-standing topics and fresh ideas to move work-family research and practice in new and necessary directions. In providing comprehensive, interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and cross-national perspectives, Tammy D. Allen and Lillian T. Eby have assembled a world-class team of scholars and practitioners to offer readers cutting-edge information on this rapidly growing area of scientific inquiry. The Handbook also includes reviews of historically under-studied groups and highlights the important role that technology plays in shaping the work-family interface, the potential contribution of neuroscience to better understanding work-family issues, the ways in which work-family scholarship and practice can be enhanced through theoretical perspectives, and the use of social media to translate important research findings to the public. The Oxford Handbook of Work and Family is a roadmap for moving work-family scholarship forward, while also providing rich descriptive accounts of how major organizations have been able to turn research findings into effective evidence-based policies and practices to help adults better manage both work and family responsibilities.

Author : Michael Reisch
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483320755

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Social Policy and Social Justice by Michael Reisch Pdf

Social Policy and Social Justice provides today's students and tomorrow's practitioners with a comprehensive overview of U.S. social policy and the policymaking process. Author and editor Michael Reisch brings together experts in the field to help students understand these policies and prepare them for the emerging realities that will shape practice in the 21st century. This text explores the critical contextual components of social policy—including history, ideology, political-economy, and culture—and demonstrates major substantive areas of policy such as income maintenance and health/mental health.

Author : Rense Nieuwenhuis,Wim Van Lancker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Families
ISBN : 9783030546182

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The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy by Rense Nieuwenhuis,Wim Van Lancker Pdf

"This engaging collection gathers theoretical and empirical insights from leading family policy experts. The authors - representing diverse countries, disciplines, and methods - bring to life the volume's innovative conceptual framework, which is organized around policy institutions, both public and private. The volume closes with a call for new lines of research that should inform family policy scholars for years to come."--Janet Gornick, Professor of Political Science and Sociology, and Director of the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA "Featuring exciting contributors from a range of often-siloed scholarly disciplines, countries and cultures, this Handbook offers nuanced insights into how interacting societal inequality factors influence family policy enactment to reinforce or improve inequality outcomes across gender, class, and nations. It is ambitious, broad-reaching, and succeeds in providing a strategic view within and across nations to inspire thoughtful evidence-based policy implications to improve societies in the future."--Ellen Ernst Kossek, Basil S. Turner Professor of Management, Purdue University, USA This open access handbook provides a multilevel view on family policies, combining insights on family policy outcomes at different levels of policymaking: supra-national organizations, national states, sub-national or regional levels, and finally smaller organizations and employers. At each of these levels, a multidisciplinary group of expert scholars assess policies and their implementation, such as child income support, childcare services, parental leave, and leave to provide care to frail and elderly family members. The chapters evaluate their impact in improving children's development and equal opportunities, promoting gender equality, regulating fertility, productivity and economic inequality, and take an intersectional perspective related to gender, class, and family diversity. The editors conclude by presenting a new research agenda based on five major challenges pertaining to the levels of policy implementation (in particular globalization and decentralization), austerity and marketization, inequality, changing family relations, and welfare states adapting to women's empowered roles

Author : Camila Moyano Dávila
Publisher : IAP
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781648028939

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Educational Justice by Camila Moyano Dávila Pdf

This book presents a novel perspective on education as a social right. Literature on this topic has focused on inclusion as the universal concept whereby access to education is examined. As a moral principle, this concept opens new challenges in different ways if we take a deeper view into diverse contexts. What education? For what? For whom? Are we thinking about education because it will bring social justice in the future, or are we thinking of education as a just practice in the present? This book brings fresh theoretical and empirical perspectives on those questions, moving beyond a pure inclusion paradigm to a broader and context-oriented notion of educational justice. The chapters engage with theories of educational justice to present these challenges at the institutional level of educational policy, at the practical level of schooling practices, and in the production of ideas around childhood and education, for instance, notions of normalcy at schools. Although the featured works are related to the Chilean educational system, they opens questions about education in general. They embrace rural and urban contexts, different educational levels (from preschool to university), and university and vocational education. This book will be rewarding reading for educational scholars, those interested in theories of social and educational justice, and anyone interested in contemporary perspectives on education, childhood and youth, inclusion, and justice.

Author : Joan F. Shireman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231539272

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Critical Issues in Child Welfare by Joan F. Shireman Pdf

Reorganized for more effective classroom use, the second edition of Critical Issues in Child Welfare begins with an updated, thorough overview of the challenges currently facing at-risk children and families. A description of the child welfare system highlights issues that are discussed in more detail throughout the book. The text explores protective services, family preservation, foster care and residential care, adoption, services for adolescents, and training and retention of staff. New material highlights the recent discoveries of the impact of early trauma and stress on children's development, and the modifications currently taking place in the child welfare system in response to this new information. The book also examines the critical challenges of poverty and substance abuse, the importance of the community in shaping child welfare services, racial disproportionality in the system, the changing response of the system to LGBT issues, and services to ameliorate the difficulties of youth leaving the system.

Author : Florence Glasser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Job stress
ISBN : CORNELL:31924088111046

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Solving the Workplace Puzzle by Florence Glasser Pdf

Author : Rebecca DelCarmen-Wiggins,Alice S. Carter
Publisher : Oxford Library of Psychology
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199837182

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The Oxford Handbook of Infant, Toddler, and Preschool Mental Health Assessment by Rebecca DelCarmen-Wiggins,Alice S. Carter Pdf

Revision of: Handbook of infant, toddler, and preschool mental health assessment / edited by Rebecca DelCarmen-Wiggins, Alice Carter. 2004.

Author : Kathleen Quinn Votaw
Publisher : Advantage Media Group
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781599326290

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Solve The People Puzzle: by Kathleen Quinn Votaw Pdf

In survey after survey, executives list attracting and retaining top talent as their #1 issue. Is it your top concern? While the people puzzle isn’t easy to solve, this book features compelling research, specific personal and client stories, and key perspectives from top business leaders and experts―all in a format that’s easy to read and prompts readers to act. Kathleen Quinn Votaw has years of experience working with CEOs who understand that traditional staffing methods don’t work for today’s companies, and in this book she offers advice on how to: keep “A Players” engaged, boosting retention and reducing turnover; attract people who will thrive in a demanding, uncertain, entrepreneurial environment; and Always Be Cultivating (ABC) by thinking of recruitment as a sales process.

Author : Belinda Morgan
Publisher : BookPOD
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780645459418

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Solving the Part-Time Puzzle by Belinda Morgan Pdf

Struggle to fit life in around work? Believe going part-time is a career risk? Think part-time and senior roles don’t mix? Part-time work has an image problem. The common perception is that it equals part-commitment and career decline. The common experience is trying to squeeze a full-time role into part-time hours. And while we view part-time as viable for mid-level roles, it’s widely considered a no-go for senior positions. Challenge your assumption that more hours = more impact. Solving the Part-time Puzzle paves the way for you to gather all pieces and get all parties on board to build a thriving career while working part-time. Recognise how to scope a genuine part-time role. Learn how to optimise your work time for maximum impact while defending your downtime. Empower your team to take the reins and maintain momentum so you can step away with confidence. The truth is – part-time is possible for anyone, in any role. For leaders looking to reduce their hours and any organisation aspiring to attract exceptional talent – part-time is a smart strategy. Leadership and flexible work coach, Belinda Morgan, shares her practical framework for turning part-time work into a career-building opportunity for individuals and organisations. Apply workable, savvy insight gained from senior leaders and master part-time for a fuller life. Within these pages, you’ll find a clear framework for leveraging part-time work, so everyone wins.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030026810491

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Serves as an index to Eric reports [microform].

Author : U. S. Merit Systems Protection Board
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Civil service
ISBN : 1568061692

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Balancing Work Responsibilities and Family Needs by U. S. Merit Systems Protection Board Pdf

Concerns significant actions of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in providing leadership to some of the Government1s human resource management programs. Specifically, it reviews selected employee benefits -- child care, elder care, alternative work schedules, part-time employment, flexiplace and leave-sharing programs. Also covers 3cafeteria benefits2, emerging benefit areas, program leadership and policy issues.