Doing your early years research project : a step by step guide /: a step by step guide. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Guy Roberts-Holmes.
• Other Names: Roberts-Holmes, Guy
• Contents: You Can Do Research!; Your Feelings about Doing Research; Myths about Early Childhood Research; An Inclusive Approach towards Early Childhood Research; Your Research Project within Early Childhood Studies; The Professionalisation of Early Childhood Studies 5; The Importance of Your Reflective Practice; Principles of High-Quality Early Childhood Research; The Research Process within Early Childhood Studies; Everyday Research Skills; Your Research Story, Methodology and Research Questions; Reflecting upon Your Personal Story; Methodology; Some Research Stories; Your Reflective Diary; High Levels of Motivation; Professional Motivations; Focusing on Your Area of Interest; The Overall Research Questions and the Field Questions; Getting Your Research Questions Right: Breadth and Depth; Doing a Pilot Study; Ethical Issues in Early Childhood Research; Legislation and the Participatory Rights of Children; Sociology and the Participatory Rights of Children; Children's Participation and Protection; A Reflective Impact Assessment of Research on Children; Your Emotional Vulnerability; Informed Consent; Informed Consent, Confidentiality and Child Protection; Informed Consent Leaflet for Children; Socially Inclusive and Respectful Relationships with Children; Informed Consent Is an Ongoing Process; Negotiating Access with the Gatekeepers; 'Feedback' and Closure of the Research; Ethical Dilemmas Are Hard to Resolve; Ethical Checklist; Designing Your Research; What is Research Design?; Two Research Approaches; Quantitative Research; Qualitative Research; Sampling within Your Project; Triangulation and Validity; The Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches: An Example; Action research; Action Research Belongs to You; Case Studies; Small-Scale Qualitative Surveys; Broad and Deep Research; Justifying Your Methods; Your Research Proposal; Organising and Writing up Your Research Project; Writing an Academic Argument and Critical Writing; The Overall Structure of Your Research Report; The Responsibilities of Your Supervisor; Your Responsibilities throughout the Research; The Research Tutorial; Your Research Timetabling; Observation: Looking and Listening; Why Do Observations?; What Is Observation?; Interpretation; Being Open in Your Looking and Listening; Knowing the Context of Your Research Setting; Unstructured Observations; Structured Observations; Tally Counting; Observation Schedules; Event Sampling and Running Records; Video Observations; Observational Diagrams; Participant Observation; Creative Listening to Young Children; Developing Cultures of Meaningful Participation; What Is Creative Listening?; The Mosaic Approach; Cameras and Ethics; Children's Photographs and Walking Tours; Children's Drawings; Children's Interpretations of Their Pictures; Interviewing Children and Adults; Different Types of Interviews; The Interview Guide; Probing; The Differences between an Interview and a Chat; Focus Group Conversations with Children; Children as Researchers; Using Structured Activities; Reflective Interviewing; A Wide Diversity of Children; Tape-Recording; Writing and Using Questionnaires; Three Ways to Administer Your Questionnaires; Ethical Issues and Questionnaires; Writing your Questionnaire; Different Types of Questions; Writing a Likert Scale Questionnaire; Analysing Your Data; The Process of Organising Your Data; Reducing and Displaying Your Data; Using Excel and Nvivo Software for Analysis; Inducing or/and Deducing the Themes and Topic Codes; Topic Coding in Qualitative Analysis; Analysing Your Data; Use a Wide Range of Data; Generating Categories and Themes; Sharing Your Research;
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (232 pages)
• Subjects: 305.2'33'072; Children -- Research -- Methodology; Child development -- Research -- Methodology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781446242384; 1446242382
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