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Where Is The Love? Developing Loving Relationships As An Essential Component Of Professional Infant Care, Susan L. Recchia, Minsun Shin, Carolina Snaider
Where Is The Love? Developing Loving Relationships As An Essential Component Of Professional Infant Care, Susan L. Recchia, Minsun Shin, Carolina Snaider
Department of Teaching and Learning Scholarship and Creative Works
Using a grounded theory approach, this study explores the ways a diverse group of pre-service student caregivers, new to teaching and caring for infants, come to understand notions of ‘love’ during an infant practicum course in the United States. Through analysing weekly dialogue journals and course assignments produced by each of the 8 participants, we captured their unique and complex experiences of love and care in the infant room. Results revealed that for love and trust between student caregivers and babies to evolve, caregivers need to acknowledge babies as unique individuals, and commit to getting to know and understand them …