"How does developing social competency at an early age benefit society?"
Social competence? Poverty? Childhood development? Value of Social Skills? My mind is all over the place when trying to formulate a research question.
What pops in my mind, what I can say/ speak for or against to possibly shed some light for this group. I haven't started volunteering yet for Head Start.
So I looked into videos to learn a little bit more. This video
a quote from the video
"Head Start began as part of the war on poverty... by supporting low income families with their emotional, educational, and health needs." Looking at those three categories of Emotional, Educational, and Health needs, I decided to focus on the Emotional part. From here I began to think about how Head Start help's kids with emotional development, why this important in the short and long run for these children. Head Start is preschool, and I never went to preschool. I went straight into Kindergarten. And in today's economy I know for Idaho we're facing budget cuts. There's has been discussions on how to reform education in Idaho, and one of the discussions was getting rid of kindergarten and having kids just start off with 1st grade to save money. I think mainly what I what to get at is that Head Start is a important program, and early start education like preschool & kindergarten shouldn't get cut. I think I possibly expand on this more by showing the importance of emotional development, and that early education programs like head start benefit society as a whole. I would narrow/scope of the emotional development possibly by focusing on social competence.
Hi Alberto:
ReplyDeleteSolid work here. Depending, you might have to narrow emotional competency to social competency. But I'm definitely thinking you'll want to narrow the part about "benefiting society?" Perhaps by focusing on benefits to the pupil instead, within some narrowly defined time-span, because otherwise benefits might be difficult to prove.
As a disclaimer, I'm not 100% sure about my feedback here. Talking about benefits to society might be narrow enough, depending on how you manage it. I think you'll get a sense for this as your research progresses, and you can zoom in or out from there.
Keep up the good work!
As an addition to my last, maybe the question is: "In what ways does head-start help children develop emotional (social) competency?" or "How does the development of emotional (social) competency in head-start benefit children (perhaps as measured through educational performance in subsequent years)?"
ReplyDeleteI'm sad to hear that the Idaho government is actually thinking about cutting this program.
My comment is short and sweet: I think you are doing a great job of focusing in on your research topic! You are not trying to include too much information.. so awesome! :)
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