Paradigms, Methods and Knowledge in Early Childhood Education

The topics that I chose to explore further are paradigms, methods and knowledge when dealing with young children. In reading ahead in the required textbook, Doing Early Childhood Research, 2nd Edition, I found these topics to be of interest to me. Paradigms are the ways that each individual child learn and encode knowledge at their own pace. As Patrick Hughes said in Chapter 3, a paradigm is a way to “see” the world and organize it into a coherent whole. Young children are different from one another. They need to be fully understood when implementing methods and helping them to encode knowledge. I’m currently employed in a low- income school district in Illinois at the high school level, but I have a strong passion for what is needed to help close some of the gaps in the field of Early Childhood. From my professional experience from working with early childhood, middle school children and high school kids, I notice a need for change when children are reaching the high school level. They need to have their right’s exercised. I think that this could be accomplished hen early childhood is fully understood. I want to be a part of the research method when educating young children. I feel that it is important to know knowledge that is needed to help young children flourish. Reference: Naughton, G., Rolfe, S., and Siraj-Blatchford. (2010). Doing Early Childhood Research. 2nd Edition