User:BeckMarin/Head Start (program)/Bibliography

Bibliography

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• White, Linda A. "Ideas and the welfare state: Explaining child care policy development in Canada and the United States." Comparative Political Studies 35.6 (2002): 713-743. This discusses international politicization and points out how the United States is wildly unique in their history compared to other highly industrialized countries. This provides both a social and political view of my topic. It shows both how childcare politicization over time, but also how these decisions reflect political structure rather than political view. This paper also provided a lot of sources that I can look into later, both on politics, sociology, and history.
• Cohen, Abby J. "A brief history of federal financing for child care in the United States." The Future of Children (1996): 26-40. This reading looks at federal programing and funding for childcare from the 1930s onward. The two main sections I used were about the CCDBG and Title-IV because that is when a larger proportion of women started to work. Cohen also discusses the pitfalls of these programs and what populations were left to fall through the cracks. This reading contextualized how long it has been since women have been working and how despite the timeframe, the views of motherhood have largely stayed the same. This stagnation in progression meant a failure to politicize childcare in the US.
• Pearlmutter, Sue, and Elizabeth E. Bartle. "Participants' perceptions of the childcare subsidy system." J. Soc. & Soc. Welfare 30 (2003): 157. This journal article delves in the sociology of childcare provision through the lens of parents, i.e. the people using the programs. It talks a lot about Head Start, the main childcare program in the US, as well as many of its faults. A main point this paper drives home is how complex the Head Start system is, which means a lot of people do not end up using the program. It illustrates the need for nonprofits to assist families, but also shows how badly the US needs to update its programs because Head Start is over 50 years old and it is continually being plagued with the same problems.
• Burger, Kaspar. "A social history of ideas pertaining to childcare in France and in the United States." Journal of Social History 45.4 (2012): 1005-1025. Burger’s work discusses of French and American ideals of welfare and society influenced welfare pertaining to childcare. One of the first key facts I got from this article was that while Head Start is a federal program, its implementation is left up to individual states. Another topic discussed was that of day nurseries and philanthropic childcare. This article was useful for conceptualizing how the United States ended up where it currently is. The comparison to France allowed to see the gaps of politicization more clearly and find other sources.