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TITLE:
Concepts of Care in After-school Programs: Protection, Instruction, and Containment
AUTHOR(S):
Anita Ilta Garey
DOCUMENT TYPE: Article
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.
Working Paper No. 48
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ABSTRACT:
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.