Doing Your Early Years Action Research Project

This user-friendly book shows early years practitioners seeking professional status how to successfully organise and complete your first small-scale action research project. The authors guide the reader to provide them with the confidence and skills to engage in action research. Action Research has become critical to the development of a reflective early years practitioner and essential to the professionalisation of all early years workers following a wide range of academic qualifications. With the aid of five exemplary projects from a diverse background of early years settings, the authors discuss and illustrate the complete early years action research process through topics such as: - What is Action Research and Why Should You Do It? - How Do You Get Started? - You and Your Colleagues Working Collaboratively - Doing Your Literature Review - Collecting Your Evidence - Evaluating and Analysing Your Data - Using Your Evidence to Change Practice Each chapter includes objectives, key learning points and continually linked case studies to help illuminate the text. Also included are follow-up questions and exercises which may be done either individually or collaboratively to further practitioners' reflection upon the ideas set out. This book is relevant for Early Childhood practitioners and students at all levels as well as those seeking professional qualifications across the full range of early years settings such as nurseries, sure start centres, early years centres and reception classes. Relevant courses include the Early Years Foundation Degree, Early Childhood Studies degrees and the new Early Years Professional Status (EYPS).

• ISBN: 978-1-4129-4832-6
• Editorial: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 192
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