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Week 4 Discussion

Chapters 7 and 8 post your responses here at the discussion area

For chapters 7 and 8…select a country to investigate. Do not select the United States or Canada. Duplications are not acceptable so please post early.

1. You may use Google, The CIA Factbook was just updated on August 26, 2018 and you may find some good information there, the World Health Organization, the Children’s Defense Fund, or other informational sites…multidisciplinary approach…

2. Investigate any of the chapters 7 and 8 topics. For example, nutrition, play, media, screen time, illness, death/mortality rates, play, parenting, abuse, early childhood education, moral development, preoperational stage, Vygotsky and other chapter 7 and 8 topics. What we are investigating is….what is it like to be an early childhood child in your country?

Next, You must locate a scholarly journal article, one with participants, from your country. I would type in your country name and then early childhood and see what pops up.

Read your article and IN YOUR OWN WORDS POST:

1. Explain what the authors were investigating…found in the introduction section

2. What was the purpose of their study…found in the introduction section

3. What did the researchers hope to show…found in the introduction section

4. What was their hypothesis…found at the end of the introductions section

5. Who were their study participants? Where did they come from? Did they receive any benefit for participation? found in the methods section

6. What was expected of them? Did they complete interviews, surveys, in-depth/clinical interviews, standardized tests, what did they do? found in the methods section

7. Explain the outcome of the study. Found in the discussion section.

You must answer all seven questions in order to receive points for this post.

If you would like to comment on the statistical applications mentioned in the results section please do so.

DO NOT, DO NOT CUT AND PASTE THE ABSTRACT AND PLACE IT IN DISCUSSION BOARD…That would be plagiarism.

What you will learn as you look for information on your selected country of investigation is that the research will dictate which of the topics you will be able to discuss. For example, if I decided to investigate the country of Brunei, (Negara Brunei Darussalam), I would not find as much information on early childhood as I would if I investigated Germany. Again, the research will dictate which topics you will be able to discuss. I understand that and am prepared for it in terms of your reporting. Let me know if you have any other questions please…