Early Child Care in Poland

First published in 1978, Early Child Care in Poland provides an authoritative and detailed look at the complex array of services and provisions which constitute in Poland the partnership between State and family for the care and upbringing of the young child. The enormous physical devastation of Poland during World War II required almost complete rebuilding of many cities and villages, but even more debilitating was the loss of human life. The needs of the children, great numbers of them left without parents, were of the highest priority to the Polish people.The book discusses important themes like children and its development, compact between family and society, general planning of family, training of personnel, information on child rearing, and research on infant and pre-school child. This is an important historical reference work for researchers of social work, and psychology.