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Robin Lynn Leavitt presents in a provocative ethnography the lived experiences of infants and toddlers in day care centers. This text speaks to researchers and instructors interested in infancy, early childhood socialization, child care, and interpretive research. Leavitt's original application of multiple theoretical perspectives--interpretive, interactionist, critical, feminist, and postmodern-- yields powerful insights into the problematic emotional experiences and relations between infants and their caregivers.



The day care center is described as an institution that imposes a temporal and spatial regime on the lives of infants and toddlers. Vivid descriptions illustrate how caregivers create problematic situations for the children as they exercise unyielding power in the rigid management and control of the daily routines and play of children. As Leavitt documents the experiences of our youngest children, she engages in a philosophical exploration of the meanings of emotionally responsive, empowering care in group settings. Her analysis points to the need to care for caregivers, and for caregiving to become a self-reflective activity.

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• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction
• Problematic Experience, Power, and Emotion
• Assumptions
• Methodological Specifics
• Research on Infant Day Care
• Summary
• 2 Theoretical and Philosophical Perspective
• Hermeneutic, Existential Phenomenology
• Symbolic InteractionismCritical Theory
• Feminism
• Postmodernism
• Summary
• 3 Power
• Spatial Regime
• Disciplinary Time
• Caregiver Power/Children's Play
• Resistance
• Extractive Versus Development Power
• A Day in the Life of a Toddler
• Children's Place in the Social World of Day Care
• Summary
• 4 Emotion
• Objectification and Seriality
• Child Care as Emotional Labor
• Child Care as Alienated Labor
• Unsurpassable Childhoods
• Summary
• 5 Emotionally Responsive, Empowering Child Care
• The Concept of Responsive Caregiving
• The Child in Child Care
• Reciprocity
• Empathy
• Images of Emotionally Responsive, Empowering Caregiving
• The Center as a Setting for Responsive Care
• Summary
• 6 Infant-Toddler Day Care: Review, Reflections, and Directions
• Review
• Reflections
• Directions
• Conclusion
• Appendix: The Credibility of Interpretive Studies
• Notes
• References

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Robin Lynn Leavitt is in the Department of Home Economics at the University of Illinois. She is co-author of Toddler Day Care: A Guide to Responsive Caregiving .