Blog:
Research
Competencies - Ed 6163
July 9, 2014
Linda’s
ECE World
This week
has begun with a thoughtful question.
What is the issue in ECE I would like to research and what are the sub
topics of that issue?
There
are two issues in Early Childhood Education that are of a concern to me. I don’t know yet which one I will end up
actually doing. The first is the
correlation between poverty and behavior in early childhood. The sub-topic is what about poverty and
behavior do I want to research? Would it
be nutrition and behavior or family relationships and behavior? I just read an interesting blog on trauma
and how it seems to replicate the symptoms of ADHD. Perhaps I will research that paradigm.
The link for the article is here. http://acestoohigh.com/2014/07/07/how-childhood-trauma-could-be-mistaken-for-adhd/
The
second issue which has been close to my heart for a long time is how the
Montessori environment can be used to help special needs children learn more
effectively. As someone who has a
learning disability and is on the Autism spectrum (although I am not deeply
affected) I have learned that hands on approach to learning has always been
more effective for me and my kids who have these same challenges. I feel the younger a child can get into the
right learning environment for them the better chance for success in school. There is beginning to be a body of research
develop in this area. How I would do
research in this area may be the challenge as there are not Montessori schools
near where I live that have special needs students and those that do have only
one or two in the classroom. I will have
to find more schools to take a sampling from and do so from through
observation. Research design will be
something I will have to focus closely upon to investigate this topic. A sub-topic may be early intervention and the
Montessori environment for the special needs child.
All in
all these topics keep coming up in my experience and I wonder if there has been
any research and insights noted in the literature. That is what this class is about learning
research procedures and looking into the literature to find what has been found
out and what may be discovered by more research.
Until next time.
Thanks for dropping by
those are both very interesting topics! I am looking forward to hearing more about the Montessori environment research, i believe that this type of environment could be beneficial to some children, but not all.
ReplyDeletewish you all the best on your research!
Hi Linda, you have chosen two very interesting topics. I am really interested in hearing more about poverty and behavior because I have chosen to research early childhood children and challenging behaviors.
ReplyDeleteThese are really great topics and I look forward to see what you decide on!
ReplyDeleteHi Linda -
ReplyDeleteWhat wonderful topics you have chosen. I know that with poverty comes some behavior issues through my experiences. I have also had the experience of working with a child who had been through a very traumatic experience and the behavior challenges with him were great.
I love the topic of the Montessori environment and have the same feeling as you do that sometimes its the hands on approach that help children - as well as - ensuring their environment is an appropriate learning environment for each child based on their needs and doing this at a very young age.
I look forward to hearing more from either one of these topics.
Gena