The Comeback Kid Strikes Again

The insights about research that I have become a part of my life especially, when I read the text entitled, “Doing Early Childhood Research: International Perspectives on Theory & Practice.” The author’s bring a lot of insights about research from places like Melbourne, Australia and London, England. This course has made me more vigilant when reading any research study, and especially those with children, indigenous people, refugees, the elderly, those with health problems and anyone who is classified as belonging to a ‘minority’ group. I also learned that research is from paradigms and not all paradigms are alike. If I were to change any of my ideas about the nature of doing research, I would be more qualitative than quantitative in my data gathering, however, I would also use a lot of mixed-method approaches too. I have learned when doing early childhood research planning is an essential starting point to ensure that ethics are taken into consideration and policies are e...

Some of the current international research topics are “The Development of an Integrated Early Childhood Development Urban Model Training Program for Informal Minders and Community Volunteers in Ghana. This model is “an integrated early childhood development (IECD) urban model training program for informal child minders (IMs) and community volunteers (CVs) working in daycare centers in Ghana is developed based on an integrated approach towards the holistic development of the child. The objectives of the project are to identify and develop appropriate training curricula, methods and materials to be used in the training of IMs and CVs. The integrated approach was used to develop the training modules” (Agorsah, 2005) . In the early childhood Australia link, the research topic of “ Reflection as a toll for quality: Working in the National Quality Standard“ in the Research in Practice Series  is “intended to assist educators to understand the process of critical reflection and its usefu...