The prospect of choosing a research topic that can make a difference in children’s lives is truly intimidating to me. I perceive research as not only being grandiose but also truly making a positive impact in the early childhood field. It is quite nerve-racking. I started reading Doing Early Childhood Research: International perspectives on theory & practice By Mac Naughton, Rolfe & Siraj-Blatchford, I started feeling better about the process. I learned that it really is the sum of small and significant research projects that add to our understanding of children’s issues. More importantly, that small-scaled research can lead to major breakthroughs (Mac Naughton & Rolfe, 2010) . More importantly, the authors guided me in my choice as they assert that the most important thing about the research process is finding a topic that one is passionate about (Mac Naughton & Rolfe, 2010) . Therefore, I chose a topic that can potentially improve child outcome in our programs. I choose to study fostering mother- child attachment in alcohol and other drug residential treatment programs. I am excited about this process because we are also looking for ways to improve our services and children’s outcome. I plan to look at different attachment-based parent models that can help me with this topic. Additionally, I want to look how establish policies and procedures that improve parent child attachment. This week I found small studies of attachment-based parenting programs that show the benefits of such an approach for women living Alcohol and other drug residential programs. I hope you will think about me when you are doing your research. Please email me articles related to attachment, mother child bong, residential treatment for women and any other article or website you believe I can use. Most of us use ProQuest, and you have the option to email the article to someone. So please send them my way, and I will do the same.
Reference
Mac Naughton, G., & Rolfe, S. A. (2010). The research process. In G. Mac Naughton, S. A. Rolfe, & I. Siraj-Blatchford, Doing Early Childhood Research: International perspectives on theory & practice (2nd ed., pp. 13-34). New York: MC Graw-Hill Open University Press.
Nar,
ReplyDeleteAttachment was one of my subtopics and I find this issue very fascinating. I did chose to go in another direction but I will certainly forward any information I come across. Good luck.
Nar,
ReplyDeleteWow, interesting choice! I too am intimidated by the prospect of research but at least we are just pretending! I like the freedom to make and them learn from our mistakes :) It sounds like we all may do plenty of that as research novices. I look forward to hearing more about your topic in the weeks to come. If I find anything relevant in my reading I will definitely send it your way.
Nar,
ReplyDeleteThat is a great topic, and what's even better is this class will help you to improve the services your program offers. I also found trying to do research a little intimidating, and am glad to hear we are not the only ones! If I run across any articles, I will be sure to email them to you. Good luck, and I look forward to hearing more about what you learn.
Shannon