Research expands the knowledge base of man and benefits man by improving life and conditions of living. In fields such as education, research aims primarily at informing and improving learning and teaching. Additionally and generally, research helps solve existing problems and challenges. No doubt the family being the nucleus of the society as well as the child benefit greatly from research.
One example of positive effects of research on children and families that easily came to my mind is that of one of my church members who actually shared her story with us in the church. She said she has been having a running battle with herself and 3 daughters putting on weight in an embarrassing way. In addition, she noticed also that one of her daughters is having tooth-decay. She said she was given two books by a renown researcher on sugar addiction.
Through research findings that were contained in one of the books “Your Last Diet!: The Sugar Addict`s Weight-Loss Plan” she was able to realize the cause of the weight gain as well as able to remedy it. Herself and family members have benefited from research findings as contained in those books she read.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
MY PERSONAL RESEARCH JOURNEY
Ray Paul refers to research as original investigation undertaken so as to gain knowledge and understanding (as quoted in Niaz, Hussain, Baig, & Bhatti, 2008). The process involve in research includes identifying, locating, developing, assessing, analysing an idea or issue so as to gain deeper understanding or knowledge of it in a way that it will be of benefit to the society. I sincerely believe that it is through research that as human beings, we are distinct and can be differentiated from other animals or any kinds of life found on the planet earth.
Simulation can be described as a process of creating a model or a representation of a system in order to gain an understanding of that system. For my research process simulation I choose the topic “The Effects of Poverty On The Education of Young Children.” This is a topic after my heart having grew up in an environment where more than 75 % of the children live in abject poverty and schooling remains for most of those children a luxury they only enjoy or ever dream of when they are been told stories about school or when a lucky pupil, who is privileged to attend school joins them in play and they act schooling together.
I am narrowing my research topic to “Benefits of Quality Education To Poor Children” with the aim of using my findings as a foundation for advocacy and promotion of quality education for children of poverty. There is no doubting it that education provides the way out poverty for any group of people that are in living in poverty. It is also a proven fact that quality early childhood care and education offers many benefits to the child, the family, and the society.
I am sure some of you must have had some experiences with issues related with children living in poverty or might have resources on the topic, I would be grateful if you can share your experience and resources with me and I am sure this will help in my research study.
References
Niaz, M., Hussain, A., Baig, A. R., & Bhatti, S. (2008). Simulation of the research process. In Proceedings of the 2008 Winter Simulation Conference S. J. Mason, R. R. Hill, L. Mönch, O. Rose, T. Jefferson, J. W. Fowler eds. IEEE Press.
Simulation can be described as a process of creating a model or a representation of a system in order to gain an understanding of that system. For my research process simulation I choose the topic “The Effects of Poverty On The Education of Young Children.” This is a topic after my heart having grew up in an environment where more than 75 % of the children live in abject poverty and schooling remains for most of those children a luxury they only enjoy or ever dream of when they are been told stories about school or when a lucky pupil, who is privileged to attend school joins them in play and they act schooling together.
I am narrowing my research topic to “Benefits of Quality Education To Poor Children” with the aim of using my findings as a foundation for advocacy and promotion of quality education for children of poverty. There is no doubting it that education provides the way out poverty for any group of people that are in living in poverty. It is also a proven fact that quality early childhood care and education offers many benefits to the child, the family, and the society.
I am sure some of you must have had some experiences with issues related with children living in poverty or might have resources on the topic, I would be grateful if you can share your experience and resources with me and I am sure this will help in my research study.
References
Niaz, M., Hussain, A., Baig, A. R., & Bhatti, S. (2008). Simulation of the research process. In Proceedings of the 2008 Winter Simulation Conference S. J. Mason, R. R. Hill, L. Mönch, O. Rose, T. Jefferson, J. W. Fowler eds. IEEE Press.
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