My First Visit With A Wooden Doll House

The place of observation took place at my work, before I clocked in for the day. I work at Oakwood Methodist Preschool/Daycare. I went in to the daycare at about 9:00, which is just free play/ breakfast time in the infant room. The infant room I observed in was a little different than the CDRC, because the infant room is from 7 weeks old to 18 months old. There was not really a place for me to be

My setting is a private day nursery which serves parents from the local community catering for children from six weeks to eleven years. I currently hold the position of Room Supervisor in the after-school room but also cover as a room assistant in the other rooms during morning sessions. Working as part of a team I undertake a variety of roles within the after-school room also supporting other room supervisors in maintaining their rooms. The pre-school room implements the Curricular Guidance for Pre-School Education (DENI/DHSSPS, 1997) and I participate actively in all aspects to assist the room supervisor. (Words 102)

While A Doll House and Machinal arose from very different time periods and theatrical movements, they both tell similar stories and touch upon similar social issues. The common theme between them is the idea of freedom of the individual (specifically women) from society.

This assignment will analyse the provision in a setting with reference to theory and guidance, using the National standards, the EYFS guidelines and OFSTED. I currently work in Tameside College Nursery as a Nursery Nurse. My job requires me to work with children between the ages of six months old and five years old as well as being responsible for a small group of children known as my key children. We have three rooms, Ladybird room, Caterpillar room, and Butterfly room. I currently work in the Ladybird room with the younger children. We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage and we base our planning, project files and observations around it. I assess, observe and track all of my key children according to the EYFS (2012) framework and I reflect with the children on their areas of development and make sure to provide next steps from the observations.

Friday October 30, 2015, I was able to assist Developmental Playgroup staff in caring for children while their parents attended a weekly Health Education and Literacy information session/class. There were a number of seven children present. Two children under the age of one, three children who are one and a half years of age, two children who were two and half years old, and an older child around the age of five. To care for the seven children, there were three staff members and a student intern (me).

Commonly, we see female characters in literature completely at the discipline of their male counterparts. However, some females challenge the notion that subservience to the patriarchy is absolutely ‘necessary’. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen and Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd both create interesting female characters in Nora Helmer and Bathsheba Everdene respectively. Whether these women are truly either independent or dependent, is ambiguous in their pieces of literature.

Going into our first observation I didn’t know what to expect because I had never been inside of an early childhood program other than for dropping off a younger sibling for no more than three minutes. Seeing what I saw that day was really eye opening for many reasons. One, I never really focused my attention to how much thought is actually put into the organization of the room. Also, the philosophy and standards surprised me because I also never knew that had so much to do with the whole place itself.

The child being observed is a twenty-six-month old boy. He attends a local daycare center full time. As well as, attends the same center for church every Sunday. He is placed in a two-three classroom where he is the youngest child in the room. He skipped the one-two classroom in the center at his parent’s directive. Therefore, went directly from the oldest infant room to a toddler room. Lacking the skills and rules that some of his classroom mates learned in the one-two room. Both mom and dad seemed involved in the child’s well-being and development. Though they seemed to be pushing his development forwards to catch up with his older siblings. Pushing the classroom teachers to have him use actual cups and wanting him to be potty

A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen, portrays a young married woman, Nora, who plays a dramatic role of deception and self-indulgence. The author creates a good understanding of a woman’s role by assuming Nora is an average housewife who does not work; her only job is to maintain the house and raise the children like a stereotypical woman that cannot work or help society. In reality, she is not an average housewife in that she has a hired maid who deals with the house and children. Although Ibsen focuses on these “housewife” attributes, Nora’s character is ambitious, naive, and somewhat cunning. She hides a dark secret from her husband that not only includes borrowing money, but also forgery. Nora’s choices were irrational; she handled the

The enforcement of specific gender roles by societal standards in 19th century married life proved to be suffocating. Women were objects to perform those duties for which their gender was thought to have been created: to remain complacent, readily accept any chore and complete it “gracefully” (Ibsen 213). Contrarily, men were the absolute monarchs over their respective homes and all that dwelled within. In Henrik Ibsen’s play, A Doll’s House, Nora is subjected to moral degradation through her familial role, the consistent patronization of her husband and her own assumed subordinance. Ibsen belittles the role of the housewife through means of stage direction, diminutive pet names and through Nora’s interaction with her morally ultimate

The center in which I am conducting observations at is the Metro Gateway Child Development Center. The director of the center is Kelly Magallanes and the assistant director is Kristen Krauss. The child development center serves about seventy students; public center. I will be assessing the toddler room for the ITERS observation; the lead teacher of the classroom is Ms. Rose and the assistant teacher is Ms. Sonia. There are eight toddlers in total.

The Two Doll Houses After reading Henrik Ibsen’s original play, A Doll’s House, one question kept lingering in my mind: would a more positive ending convey the same message? After all, Ibsen ended the play adhering to the major theme – Nora, the main character, seeking freedom. However, was she really bound to anything or anyone after her creditor returned her forged contract to her? Ibsen, himself, must have received similar inquiries, which prompt him to write an alternative ending. Although the alternative ending releases Nora from the bounds of her creditor, she is still a captive to the society’s expectations of her role as a woman and a wife.

Macaroons: nora ! Nora! Please don’t leave me and go… why did she leave me half eaten? what is going to happen of me now!! Torvald detests me, he was always against Nora eating me………why did it have to be me?

Nora Hemler – The protagonist of the play and the wife of Torvald Helmer. Nora initially seems like a playful, naïve child who lacks knowledge of the world outside her home and a bit of a ditz. When her husband, Torvald, calls her things like his "little squirrel," his "little lark," and, worst of all, a "featherhead," she doesn 't seem to mind. Experiences and knowledge have enabled her to see her position in her marriage with increasing clarity and finds the strength to free herself from her oppressive situation.

A Doll’s House was published in Norway in 1879 by Henrik Isben. He is known as the father of Modern Theatre. He is also referred as the father of realism. The play is very interesting because of the funny dialogue, the unique characters, and Ibsen 's view of the place of ladies in the public eye. The main characters of the play is Nora Helmer and her husband Torvald Helmer. Imagine what it would be like to live in a doll 's home? It 's a house in which you are controlled and have no energy to settle on any solid choice; It 's a house in which you are a play thing for another person 's amusement. This sounds a ton like an awful marriage, so it 's a house in which your husband holds the satchel strings, in a manner of speaking, and abandons you with no influence over your family 's accounts. In fact, your husband keeps you on a tightrope. Such is the perceived life of Nora Helmer.