E 102 week 13 summary notes
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E 102 week 13 summary notes: P1: paid work children minority world do has little status among adults. Leonard Belfast study found older children - more paid work – newspaper is most common P2: Children do it seen as pupils with hobby. Seen as harmless and independenceP3: Leonard 2002 said parents look favorably when children see ai of work make money and also independence P4: Leonard dismisses newspaper deliveries Woman’s role in child care P5: Morrow 1994 twice more employed people in rural area like Birmingham children low income backgrounds are discouraged from working P6: Children working conditions worse than adults – Leonard 2004 Hobbs et al 2007P7: Children have limit when can do paid employment and a cap on wages. Invisibility child work dueto government not improving child working conditions P8: Frederiksen Denmark 1999 children under 18 work with adult instead of support feel isolated as adults have power. P9: Adults mainly see child work as school. Paid work interfere school seem bad thing. Small work 10– 20 hours enhance education – Leonard 2002 and Hobbs et al 2007P10: Meyer et al 2009 in New Zealand students who did sport activities 5-10 hours or work outside home more successful in their studies –Leonard 2002 – 2ndand 3rdchapter
Children and adult have differing views when it comes to young children of school age being employed to earn a paid wage. Gasson and Linsell (2011) looked into detail in the research of children and work. They found many positives of children in work through the use of Leonard (2002) who believes that newspaper delivery can have many positive effects on children where it can build a child’s character giving thema hobby to make extra money which can teach children the value of hard work early on. Leonard 2002 also looks into how children have a strong belief that they have earnt the right to participate in forms of paid employment which can increase their social skills of communicating with customers that the newspapers are being given to and also a key reason of children’s employment is also giving them a sense of independence showing there parents and carers that they are mature and confident enough to handle themselves in the working world.Children may see work as a positive where they can earn a wage and increase their confidence through building social skills however, looking through an adults lens there are many potential negative effects of children working at such a young age.Children in work can struggle to be given the same respect that adults are given in the working world. As (Hobbs et al 2007) found that the conditions that employers given children employees are not as good as the ones given to adult employees thus, showing the disregard shown to children whilst in paid employment.Frederiksen researched children in Denmark where they are required to work with adults for safeguarding reasons making sure that children are taken care of. Instead of feeling taken care children often found adults to be controlling asserting there power thus, making children feel isolated even though they are supposed to have the support of an adult. Showing how adults don’t give children the respect that they deserve by looking down on them whenever given a chance to doso making them feel like the bottom of the workplace (Frederiksen 1999).This shows the viewpoint of adults when it comes to children in work as they don’t give children the same respect they would perhaps show there adult colleagues in the working world.
3. When you are referencing academic's work whether that be a book or an online version you have to include the author's surname, the book and year that it was published. This should be done whenever another source has contributed to your work.4. A reference list should be at the end of your assignment and should have all the sources that have contributed to your assignment in alphabetical order.5. Autobiographies are first person personal recounts that are written by children or adults talking about there experiences whilst a biography is written by other person potentially a adult, fellow child, researcher or carer and can be presented as case studies. They can be useful for understanding childhood as it can show you he change over time in each generation, social and economic changes and different changes of lifestyle and different personal events.6. In block 2 I have learnt the importance of interaction in early years between primary carer and infant crucial for development. Influenced me as showed important part adults and carers play in child's life in there social life to help maintain relations with there peers. Different style of parenting work for different children which shows be versatile as one method may work for one child but not for the other one. I also learned importance of safeguarding and protecting children making me think how I can promote welfare of children I work with. Going above and beyond for looked after children and making sure they are happy and making positive steps of progression of development.