I was encouraged to hear about the advocacy efforts in place from the two interviews. First was hearing the instructors at the local community college teaching Early Childhood Education classes were advocating for play in the centers. Second was hearing about one director at a local preschool program blogging about parental fears and myths along with practical solutions to understand it all. And third, the local school district launched a program being funded by First 5 to collect exit interviews and inventories of preschool children who are entering into kindergarten for that district. The purpose is to see if these children are up to the new expectations of school success.
Listening to the two professionals about play encouraged me seek this as the main topic for my research paper. I could hear frustration, passion, and desire to change things about sharing the benefits of play. Since there are already pre-existing attitudes and perspectives about play in young children, the challenge will be to change them so they are about play as the means to learning in academics and development.
Play is a huge topic. Is this appropriate for an advocacy research paper and then action plan? Is it too vague? And what would be some related issues?
Your chosen topic has great potential. This topic is very controversial and I think that is why I like it so much. I am excited to see where it goes and I would love to read your paper if you will let me. I am kind of in the middle of the controversy. I do recognize that play is extremely important for learning, but I also recognize that being educationally based is important. Good luck in your research.
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ReplyDeleteI love your topic. My topic is parent involvement. Parents think we just sit around and let the children do whatever they want. The center I have chosen for my internship placement uses High Scope curriculum for preschool children. The major point of High Scope is allowing children to learn through play. Good luck and remember to have enough information to compose a long research paper. I am trying to think of a topic that will be helpful and provide enough information to complete our research paper. I would like to know your three areas under your topic. Great work!
Faith, your topic is a topic that has forever haunted any Early Childhood professional. How to explain the importance of play to parents and families is a challenging prospect. People have to be exposed and educated to the vital and important connection between play, and the proper development of a child. Excellent topic!
ReplyDeletePlay is such an important part of early education. Some parents do not understand the benefit and feel they are wasting their money by their children just playing all day. You could branch out from play and use the social/emotional benefits to write about. Also the foundation is lays for math skills and language and literature also.
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