‘How Three Young Toddlers Transition From an Infant to a Toddler Child Care Classroom: Exploring the Influence of Peer Relationships, Teacher Expectations, and Changing Social Contexts’ - 2012
This study by Recchia and Dvorakova (2012), followed three infants over a nine-month period at Columbia University based childcare centre in the USA. The age of the children began of at 19 months old (Demetri), 21 months old (Amy) and 23 months old (Jeremiah). These three children were all beginning their second year in the infant room and were preparing to transition to the toddler room. The focus of the research was to discover natural development of adjustment to a new environment and the infants’ changing social skills with familiar peers. During …show more content…
During the research, children have the right to privacy and respect when meeting their individual needs if the child becomes uncomfortable e.g. sleeping, eating, toileting (ECE Code of Ethics, 1996). Children around the age of 24-months are more than capable of telling you their wants and needs. Asking the child for informed consent is a big part of respect within research - this also means providing informed consent to parents (Mutch, 2005). It is also important the teachers and parents are aware of the time the research will take along with the benefits and purpose of the study (NZARE, 2010).
Possible dilemmas – Generalising the study is difficult as it is small o scaling – only applying to three children. Policies and practices may interfere with the way in which the researcher would like to go about their study and this could be due to cultural reasons such as no videoing during care moments. If one parent were not happy with the way study is going this would jeopardize the whole study, making it only on two children, which may seem inadequate. Everything regarding this study has to be specifically addressed and understood before study …show more content…
The overall portrayal of the research suggests that infants/toddlers are put in a difficult and stressful situation when transitioning and navigating and negotiating their way through this transition is an unsettling time. Transitions from home to school/early childhood care settings is suggest by Urie Bronfenbrenner as the first life changing and major ecological transition in a child’s educational context (Firth, Couch & Everiss, 2009). Through this theoretical perspective, transitions are seen to encompass a set of interlocking influences of home and ECE setting, which affect the child as they journey through their early education (Fabian, Dunlop,
This study by Recchia and Dvorakova (2012), followed three infants over a nine-month period at Columbia University based childcare centre in the USA. The age of the children began of at 19 months old (Demetri), 21 months old (Amy) and 23 months old (Jeremiah). These three children were all beginning their second year in the infant room and were preparing to transition to the toddler room. The focus of the research was to discover natural development of adjustment to a new environment and the infants’ changing social skills with familiar peers. During …show more content…
During the research, children have the right to privacy and respect when meeting their individual needs if the child becomes uncomfortable e.g. sleeping, eating, toileting (ECE Code of Ethics, 1996). Children around the age of 24-months are more than capable of telling you their wants and needs. Asking the child for informed consent is a big part of respect within research - this also means providing informed consent to parents (Mutch, 2005). It is also important the teachers and parents are aware of the time the research will take along with the benefits and purpose of the study (NZARE, 2010).
Possible dilemmas – Generalising the study is difficult as it is small o scaling – only applying to three children. Policies and practices may interfere with the way in which the researcher would like to go about their study and this could be due to cultural reasons such as no videoing during care moments. If one parent were not happy with the way study is going this would jeopardize the whole study, making it only on two children, which may seem inadequate. Everything regarding this study has to be specifically addressed and understood before study …show more content…
The overall portrayal of the research suggests that infants/toddlers are put in a difficult and stressful situation when transitioning and navigating and negotiating their way through this transition is an unsettling time. Transitions from home to school/early childhood care settings is suggest by Urie Bronfenbrenner as the first life changing and major ecological transition in a child’s educational context (Firth, Couch & Everiss, 2009). Through this theoretical perspective, transitions are seen to encompass a set of interlocking influences of home and ECE setting, which affect the child as they journey through their early education (Fabian, Dunlop,