When I Think of Research...

One of the insights I’ve had about research is that we have a lot to think to make quality research. It is not all about research techniques. Researchers need to think carefully to collect objective and trustworthy data, balance the benefits and interests of the research and ethics and so on. My Idea about the nature of doing research changed from researchers’ curiosities to social benefits. From research simulation, I learned that it is very difficult to prove relations between some events and a child’s behavior because children become who they are by being influenced by many factors. The most difficult part of this course was the vocabulary. It is sometimes hard to understand what the textbook says. To meet that, I tried to concentrate on grabbing the outlines first and read for details when doing assignments. This course modified my perceptions of early childhood professionals to more academic and influential for the society than I used to think.

For my colleagues,

Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts through the course. They were very important because research is a difficult topic. Good luck on your future courses where I hope to see you soon!