Concepts of care in after-school programs Protection, instruction, and containment

Concepts of care in after-school programs

Protection, instruction, and containment

Garey

Anita Ilta

Garey, Anita Ilta

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University of California, Berkeley

Center for Working Families

University of California, Berkeley. Center for Working Families

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Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley

2002

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This paper analyzes the design and implementation of a state-funded after-school program by focusing on the social domains of family, schooling, and law enforcement as they converge at the site of after-school care. In the contested terrain of after-school programs, these different domains incorporate divergent concepts of care that are forced into juxtaposition and engagement. Care is alternatively defined as nurturing protection, instruction, or containment. The collision between these competing definitions explains some of the confusion and passion in debates about child care.

Anita Garey is assistant professor of family studies and sociology at the University of Connecticut and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Working Families in 1999.

Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper No. 48

Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper

No. 48

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