1. Well my topic has not changed because I am really interested in researching what parental guidance is key to a childs success. I want to research what the probability of a child succeeding in life when he or she is given nothing during their childhood.
2. I found out that child development can be understood as the physical, cognitive, social, and emotional maturation of human beings from conception to adulthood, a process that is influenced by interacting biological and environmental processes. Of the environmental influences, the family arguably has the most profound impact on child development.
https://123writings.com/research-paper-topics
Research indicates that the development of a child’s behavior is strongly influenced by how well his or her family functions. It is during this time that children are dependent upon adults to meet their needs that their concept of the importance of family develops
http://www.kon.org/urc/v5/mahalihali.html
Based on what I have been reading, childhood maturity or development is highly dependent on family status and parental participation. It will be exciting to see what other research comes my way.
3. One article I found, "Dads Play an Important Role in Childhood Development", is interesting because it solely focuses on the fathers role and their purpose when developing their child. I believe this will be extremely important in my paper.
http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2016/dads-play-key-role-in-child-development/
The article, "How poverty affects the brain", can also provide a lot of research for my essay as it describes how children who are not as beneficial are more likely to go to jail, drop out of school, and are more likely to fail.
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/02/how-poverty-affects-brains-493239.html
4. I got a few ideas from this search but I would definitey like to take the time to connect what is most important in a child's life for future success. I found articles that say parental supervision is the most important while other sources claim that the earlier a child learns, the more mature and successful they become.
5. Up above, I have listed four resources that all provide very psychological overviews of how different environments develop child differently. Wether it is mainly the father or mother's love, having a large family, have successful parents. The research is endless!
6. Yes, as stated above I did find controversies amongst what the best solution of child development would be. It is not clear and it is indeed a mix of different styles. Hopefully my future research makes the soltuion more clear!
Kyle
The research on how poverty affects your brain is good, but you need to look at the original research or at least more academic sources that discuss it -- not just popular sources like Newsweek magazine. That research is important, and I just heard it discussed this morning on NPR's "On the Media" in a report by Brooke Gladstone, which connected it to the famous "marshmallow test."
ReplyDeleteMy main concern with your topic is that you seem to be losing track of "college" as the real class topic. So you have to think about the development of young people in the context of college success. There is definitely a lot of research on how poor kids face what seem like insuperable obstacles to achieving eventual college success -- unless programs step up to support them much earlier than when they come to college. The work of Paul Tough is especially good, and you should begin by looking at his book How Children Succeed, which starts with child development among poor students but focuses toward college (I handed you an excerpt but the book itself is important). Tough also wrote an article that received widespread attention titled "What if the secret to success is failure?" which speaks to the problem with low standards that are often seen in poorer school districts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/what-if-the-secret-to-success-is-failure.html
I think you should look specifically at programs that help less affluent or poor kids succeed in school so they can make it to college and succeed. Tough discusses some, but there are others, including some here at Rutgers -- such as the Rutgers Future Scholars Program. That would help tie all your research together and direct it at the college topic.
I see that Paul Tough has a new book titled Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why With Tough, you are also getting a popularization of academic research, so you do still have to look at research on what particular approach or college-oriented program you decide to focus on.
ReplyDeleteIt occurs to me that the focus on "Grit" (Angela Duckworth's term) is a sort of individualization (or "privatization") of what makes kids succeed. So rather than building programs that deal with poverty or that will support poor kids, we say that they just have to build up their ability to overcome failure. So you might even take a critical approach to this literature, on the model of Dana Becker's work on stress -- which you can get a taste of here:
http://ideas.time.com/2013/03/13/does-stress-hide-deeper-social-problems/