EVER wondered what your baby really gets up to in daycare?
In what is being dubbed the groundbreaking ?baby-cam? study, a team of Australian researchers thought it worth finding out and are strapping cameras to the heads of babies up to 18 months old.
Footage is taken from a tiny camera mounted on an infant?s hat or headband to understand how they navigate their days in both family daycare homes and more formal long daycare centres.
Researchers have told The Weekend Australian that the rise in the number of infants in childcare ? 277,930 aged under 24 months in the March quarter last year, 9.5 per cent more than the previous year ? meant research was necessary to evaluate how they navigate the more institutionalised settings.
Besides the unique camera footage, researchers are using different methods to study the relationships that infants develop while in care.
Researchers from Charles Sturt University have been collecting the data over the past three years. Researcher Tina Stratigos said some babies were really excited to wear the cameras on their heads, while others were less co-operative.
?They only wear them up to 15 minutes at a time because different babies will tolerate it differently,? she said.
?If the baby seems uncomfortable and is pulling the camera off, then we stop using it.
?We are looking at what the infants are interested at looking at and the amount they spend looking at the other children that they share the setting with: how they track the movements of the other children, how they look at things in their environments.
?It?s amazing when you see things from right down on the ground how large spaces can seem.?
Foundation professor of early childhood education at Charles Sturt and team leader Jennifer Sumsion said the project, funded by the Australian Research Council, provided important data to help understand the experiences of children in care.
She said little research existed in the area because it was ?so hard? to document the experiences of children who cannot yet talk.
?One of the things that really struck us is how capable these children are in terms of negotiating their lives,? she said.
Family Day Care Australia chief executive Carla Northam said the research would help all educators in the early childhood education and care sector to better understand the infants in their care.
Storybook Cottage Family Day Care in Warrimoo, NSW, is one of the centres that has agreed to take part in the study
Source: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/toddlers-share-their-world-on-candid-camera/story-e6frg6nf-1226262275888
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