Week 2: My Personal Research Journey

Growing up as a child, I had a lot of opportunity to play and express my inner desires, skills and interest. I grew up in a big compound and a big garden, physical activities was to the fullest and I also learnt a lot about nature, food and animals very early in life, Make believe plays made I and my parents discover my area of interest, which was being a teacher and I have their full support till date. I believe that this ability to explore the world around me as shaped my personality as an individual and an educator. I love to play with kids even as an adult, I get along quickly with children because I try to understand their world and enjoy the moment with them.

I believe children should enjoy being children and allow exploring their world around them to the fullest, so that they can grow, learn and discover their uniqueness. For this reasons, I feel strongly contributing to the existing knowledge on the role of play as an effective tool for learning, development and transitions in the early year. Narrowing down my research interest, I strongly believe that play helps children develop social skills early, which is an essential survival kit for them.

Constructing the research chart as well as reading through the textbook has opened me to some insights on the key things that are important while planning and intending to execute a research project. I now understand that it is important to clearly state the purpose, avoiding ambiguity in world so that anyone attempting to find out about your goal with the research would understand it. Also after providing literature reviews on previous findings on my research topic or a related aspect of it, the need to plan and clearly state and describe effectively participants in the method section and finally that the result based on the data collected should reflect and described clearly in discussion and a summary of it in the conclusion sector

 I am open to ideas, information, insights especially contributions from conferences that anyone might have attended, where the issue of play in social skill development in the early years. I know this kind of material would help me understand and have a professional and varied perspectives as to how play has contributed to how children are able to survive the change from home to school