Insights gained about research from this course are there are different ways of approaching research and doing research. Research should be of quality and must always be ethical, purposeful, well designed, transparent, contextualized, credible, careful, imaginative, and equitable. You learn about things doing research.
I have learned that when doing research that you must chose a topic that interest you. One must place his or her bias aside when doing research. Your research should do no harm to your research participants Your research should acknowledge your support, have theories or hypothesis, have a method of measurements of your research through questionaries and observations
Your research may use different methodology, be positivist, have interpretivist or postmodern paradigms, have quantitative or qualitative data approaches. One can use triangulation-use of multiple methods and approaches. You must select a topic that interet you when writing the final research topic. Your research should be informative, ethical, meaningful, persuasive, and significant.
Challenges encountered are to find professional sources through literary review. You can find periodicals, view colleagues research, institutional studies. You must have the consent of your research participants, and they must have the permission to leave the research when they want too Parents must approve in the research participants are minors. You must have approval from your institution or administration when doing the research. Research must be valid and reliable and there must be a true sampling of the research population.
My perceptions have changed of this course in that you can rely on your own decisions when doing research. The considerations of your research participants must be taken into account such as their well-being, safety, and willingness to be in the research. You must be a professional in your approach towards early childhood You must use credible resources. Your education in early childhood must be continuing through professional organizations, your peers, and the international community.
