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Introducing Research to Early Childhood Studies, 1st Edition | AU/NZ
Overview
Introducing Research to Early Childhood Students is not about how to do research. It is about assisting pre-service students to become confident research readers. How to enjoy reading research, how to question it, how to identify its basic strengths and weaknesses, and how to use it to stimulate one’s own professional thinking, are the sub themes of this text. To this end a range of research issues have been contextualised into familiar early childhood topics that are relevant to students across all years of pre-service preparation and that relate to the core areas of learning environments and professional experience.
Introducing Research to Early Childhood Students is therefore a course text and not a single subject text. The chapters on outdoor learning environments and play for example, relate more to the early stages of training and might best be used first. Students can return to the chapters at any time and work more specifically on the research or theoretical issues presented in them. Chapters do not have to be used in their entirety, instead specific sections can be selected for an in-depth focus.
- Practical tasks for tutorial or workshop activities are included at the conclusion of most chapters.
- Research articles, relevant to the theme of each chapter, are included.
- Introduces undergraduate early childhood students to the research culture in their own field, through the experience of being a beginning research reader, and participating in some basic research activities.
- Helps student develop some introductory skills of critical evaluation and reflection and empowers them to test and question and question the usefulness of research, including older classic studies as well as contemporary ones.
- Introduces sound Australian research that relates to traditional early childhood issues that are foundation components in undergraduate courses.
- Presents students with a historical context by including older, classical research studies in the field.
- Teaches students useful strategies for making sense of research and helping them to link research findings to everyday practice in early childhood settings.
Introduction
1. Feeling comfortable about research
2. Theories: Sorting it all out
3. The outdoor learning environment: Contextualised research
4. Play and childrens social development: Research that generates research
5. Relationships between caregivers and toddlers: Managing complex research
6. Maternal employment and child care for infants: Dealing with controversial research
7. Transition to school: Personalising research
8. Childrens drawings: Case study research
9. A final note on qualitative and quantitative methods
Index
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