This week's assignment I chose option 2 which is to imagine that I had the means and the knowledge to conduct research studies on any topic with no limitation from the present. Also, my research topic will benefit children and their families immensely. I chose this option because I find enjoyment in pushing the boundaries and dreaming about the inconceivable. It is the out of this world ideas that create inspiration for researchers today and give them the motivation to achieve the unimaginable. Starting with an idea can be the first step in reaching goals that we may have once seen as unattainable.
The topic that I would choose to research would be studying the global world and how international connections achieve considerate and accepting feelings in the early childhood environment. Many children are faced with cultural diverse scenarios in their education that they may not have encountered in their neighborhoods. Creating equality and cultural acceptance early in education would create a society that is more aware and accepting, ideally with less violence and discrimination. This study would require resources enabling young children access to other parts of the world, ideally in face to face contact. With the many regions of the world experiencing cultural unrest it would interesting to see if those communities could create a bond with other children and thus increase knowledge and understanding of acceptance.
It is exciting and interesting to dream up ideas and thoughts that may seem impossible and irrational at the current time. As we progress, I would hope that international communication become somewhat of a normal scenario throughout the classrooms in the United States. This would create relationships between cultures and increase the knowledge and understanding of diverse groups of people.
Thankyou Caroline.
ReplyDeleteSorry that I do not quite understand the topic that you have chosen to do the research - "studying the global world and how international connections achieve considerate and accepting feelings in the early childhood environment". Just to clarify, do you mean how children can be more cultural sensitive and have more feelings about the cultures and the children in other parts of the world. If so, I think this is a good topic. I heard that in China when it was under extreme communists party management, people in China were told that they were living in the best quality of life than all the others. The outside world was all chaotic and people were all in deep water and hot fire! At that time, China was an enclosed country. So no one had the chance to travel to see the outside world. So everyone just saw their own world. Even today, in USA, I also heard there were a lot of Americans never left the place where they were born.
Now it is a world of internet that everyone can get access to information from any part of the world in a second. It is important that we can prepare the children be more cultural adaptive. The world is getting closer and closer altogether.