Research that Benefits Children and Families—Uplifting Stories

My simulation title for this course has been on poverty in children. I cannot help but to notice that children who (I knew during my childhood days) grew in neighborhood which has low socioeconomic status got involved in a lot of social issues while growing up. Most of them end up with a family of their own and it is no different from the one they grew up with hence it is a vicious cycle that every child born in these type of neighborhood faces the same fate and issues. I can't talk for all of them but majority of them for sure. I was looking in the internet for a research that empathized this issue. I came across an article titled "The Neighbourhood They Live In: The Effects of Neighbourhood Residence on Child and Adolescent Outcomes". Please view this article at this link: http://sfxhosted.exlibrisgroup.com/waldenu?sid=google&auinit=T&aulast=Leventhal&atitle=The+neighborhoods+they+live+in:+the+effects+of+neighborhood+residence+on+child+and+adolescent+outcomes.&id=doi:10.1037/0033-2909.126.2.309&title=Psychological+bulletin&volume=126&issue=2&date=2000&spage=309&issn=0033-2909

This particular article guides on how a research on neighbourhood can be done in the best way possible to get the ultimate results. I found this very interesting and hope you will too. 

My Personal Research Journey

  My simulation topic will be about poverty in children and how it affects their early childhood education. The reason why I chose such a topic is because I have seen many poor kids in my country who are mostly in the rural areas, do not have the access to quality or any early childhood education at all. Parents who refuse to send their kids to school just because they do not have enough money to pay the fees, buy books or clothes or even food for the kids. Although I know this is an universal issue, I want to start by helping those kids back in my country. I cannot do this alone hence I believe that by reading more and writing a research paper on this topic will help to spread around my concern with facts and data to all of my other early childhood educators. I have no idea on how to write a good research paper hence the information that I am eagerly waiting to learn from this course will definately be very useful for me. I hope my fellow colleagues in this course who have any experience in dealing with this issue could shed some light on where I could find some good resources and perhaps can even share with me your experiences and insights. I will truly appreciate it.