Description
| Product ID: | 9781138669260 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Developing Children as Researchers |
| Subtitle: | A Practical Guide to Help Children Conduct Social Research |
| Authors: | Author: Chae-Young Kim, Lucinda Kerawalla, Kieron Sheehy |
| Page Count: | 140 |
| Subjects: | Primary and middle schools, Primary & middle schools, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: Citizenship and social education, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: Citizenship & social education |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Enabling young children to conduct their own social research can have both social and educational benefits, helping them to influence local and national policies and practices on issues that affect or matter to them. This practical guide gives teachers –and others who work with children– a set of structured, easy to follow session plans to encourage children to conduct research on topics of their choice. The ten session plans have been tried and tested in many schools and make the process of teaching research skills and supporting children’s research projects readily accessible to adults who want to enhance children’s curiosity by investigating the issues that concern them. Encouraging young children to create and carry out their own social research projects can have significant social and educational benefits. In addition, their research may help them to influence local and national policies and practices on issues that matter to them. To support this, Developing Children as Researchers acts as a practical guide to give teachers – and other adults who work with children – a set of structured, easy-to-follow session plans that will help children to become researchers in their own right. Comprising of ten session plans that have already been tried and tested in schools, this guide will assist you in supporting child researchers while helping you to develop the techniques for teaching research skills effectively. The session plans also ensure that children’s views are heard and reflected by encouraging their active curiosity and investigation of issues that they may be concerned about. Forming a step-by-step guide, the ten sessions cover themes such as:
Children’s research has often depended upon the support of academic researchers to provide resources and training. By making the research training and facilitation process more widely accessible, this guide will help remove the psychological and practical hurdles that teachers and others who regularly work with children might feel about helping children’s research themselves. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-03-20 |
