A few years old but a very neat piece from evolutionary #anthropologist Karen #Kramer. How do children learn best? Packed into same-age classrooms listening to an adult?
'...work among with the Pumé of Venezuela and the Maya living in the Yucatan Peninsula—resoundingly suggests that they learn from one another.'
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'IN THE CHILD-populous world of hunter-gatherers, little separates the spheres of adults and children. The places they work, play, relax, and sleep are not segregated. Privacy, alone time, and adult-only spaces are concepts unknown to the Pumé, for example. They live in open-walled structures that children freely run in and out of without requesting entry. Pumé children also aren’t restricted from what might be considered adult spaces and activities, such as menstrual huts (special structures where women in many traditional societies go for the few days a month when they menstruate), watching births, being around the dying, or participating in all-night social dances, called tohé, where the band joins together to sing, conduct healings, and tell stories.'
This book offers an exploration of #work-life balance, focusing on #parents, #academics, the self-employed, and #migrants. It examines self-care, #childcare, and informal care dynamics.
It’s a day to celebrate mothers, but motherhood is increasingly difficult in America. The Biden admin has fought for paid leave, affordable childcare…, but Republicans have thwarted their efforts: For families without paid leave, babies “are going to day care when they are two weeks old.”
The slow motion car crash of early years provision continues, with the Govt. setting targets & provisions for free care with no real knowledge of how such expansion of capacity could actually be achieved.
yet more declaratory politics from the Tories;
perhaps following the Rwanda bill, which declared via legislation that Rwanda is safe, we can expect a legislative declaration that all children are actually in child care!
In an interview with #RadioCanada, #Poilievre was noncommittal on whether #ChildCare, #DentalCare and #pharmacare would be dismantled by a government led by him — but he raised questions about the programs' effectiveness.
"Rep. Katie Porter absolutely shreds Lindsey Burke, a right-wing Heritage Foundation official, who tries to say there's not enough money to invest in universal #childcare. Porter delivers a brilliant breakdown on the nationwide need for an investment in universal childcare, points out how there's plenty of money available to invest in children for future, #sexism in #Congress and so much more." https://youtu.be/d59kfp7CNCk
“Our childcare is some of the most expensive in the world and it isn’t working. Research shows that 85% of mothers struggle to find childcare that fits around their work & one in 10 have quit jobs due to childcare pressures.
For too long we’ve seen the cracks in our dysfunctional childcare system papered over. We’ve got a patchwork of provision that doesn’t meet the needs of children, parents or the childcare sector"
Jemima Olchawski, CEO TheFawcett Society #Childcare