Dear Writers,
I would like you to write a critical article about “Contemporary Issue : The effect of the pandemic on children’s education development”
My specialization in the university is Master’s of Social Research.
Full details are explained in the attached Word file.
Essay (1200 words) (LOs 1 & 2)
A critical analysis of ways in which contemporary issues, research studies, social policy and legislation, public and professional perceptions are entangled in the production of how babies, children or young people are constructed in the 21st century with reference to recent research. You will choose the issue related to education/childhood/youth that interests you and create your own essay title, to meet the course Learning Objectives:
1.To critically discuss the ways in which a contemporary issue pertinent to the lives of babies, children or young people has been researched.
2.To critically analyze the ways in which research studies affect how babies, children and young people are perceived in relation to a chosen issue.
?Studies about early childhood age 1-10 years in a critical way. Most studies need to be based in UK.
?The blue are some lines from my reflection on the topic.
Topic: The effect of the pandemic on children?s education
?Introduction
Start with introduction about the pandemic and how it changed our lives specially children.
Covid 19 pandemic created the largest distortion to education in history.
Explain one or two of childhood theories (Piaget and Bandura) with references to explain the development steps of children and the need of the traditional schools and how it effects the life of children and development especially in this age.
Link some studies and research about the important of child social interaction and the effect on their mental and body health.
In a critique way: the effect on education system and the development of children, the need of socializing transferred to staying home and screen time for long time.
?Shifting to online learning
Reference and research about the methods used in teaching during the pandemic
How teaching methods have changed and learning objective changed in comparing with the way before covid.
Specialists? thoughts and reflection on the e-learning and the way education going.
How education went through in UK schools.
?How children response to e-learning
Some specialist thoughts about the result of the e-learning and how it can be linked with child development theories.
Children?s thoughts and opinions about the e-learning during covid and less social contact.
?The unfavourable impact on children
Specialist thought and research about the downside of the e-learning and how it effects the return of students to schools after the pandemic.
Research and studies about the social and educational missing among the students
How the use of technology during covid shift the way people view smart devices.
?Future conception
What do research and specialists say about future of this generation after covid? Some advice and recommendation for both teachers and parents.
How the generation of children who grow up in the pandemic co-op with the future. Will it teach them adaptability or will weaken their development?
Recommended References
Burman, E (2016) Deconstructing Developmental Psychology, 3rd Edition, Routledge
The book provides a useful reference point in sign-posting the many ways the field of developmental psychology contributes and leaks into to our understandings of the child and childhoods. We will refer to some of the readings during the taught sessions, but the book also provides a resource for finding research literature that links to contemporary issues and social practices framed by childhood. The book explores how through discourses of developmental psychology normative descriptions can slip into naturalised prescriptions when translated in practice in care, health, and education. It also explores how tools of measurement produce ?research objects and research subjects?. Not only does it explore the way that this individualistic and child-centred approach continues to limit our understandings of childhood, but it also focuses particular attention on how these discourses also have an effect on the construction of parenthood ? and in particular mothers.
Other useful background reading:
Prout, A. (2005)
The Future of Childhood Towards the interdisciplinary study of children, Routledge.
There will be core readings for each session that are identified in the handbook, however this reading list is indicative and will depend on interests of group and in the light of new work being published, this may change.
Broughton A. Black skin, White theorists: Remembering hidden Black early childhood scholars. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. September 2020.
DOI: 10.1177/1463949120958101
Robert-Holmes, G. (2015) The ?datafication? of early years pedagogy: ?if the teaching is good, the data should be good and if there?s bad teaching, there is bad data?, Journal of Education Policy Volume 30 (3): 302-315
Burman, E. “Deconstructing Developmental Psychology” (Chapter 7)
