When I Think of Research…
When I think of research, I think of scholarly and
well-educated people who have expertise in their field of studies. I thought of
Rousseau, Piaget, Erickson, Pestalozzi, Froebel and other influential people in
the field of early childhood education.
Building research competencies course has changed
the way I look at research. Taking the advice of our instructor about’ taking
one step at a time’ and seeing how everyone work so hard for these course has
helped me a lot in building my research simulation. The process of research,
determining the design and methods to use, ethical issues, and methods of
gathering data or information were just some of the lessons that I learned from
this course.
Now that I
have the tools I needed in conducting a research, I have changed the way I
looked at research. I am more confident to know that I can make a research in
the future that will help benefit the families and children in our military
communities.
Reflecting
way back the first week of this course, I was scared to death on how am I going
to survive and finish this course. Being a Second English Language learner
myself, makes it more difficult for me to imagine how people like me able to
formulate or even write a research. I even thought that this course would be
one of the major hindrances that will prevent me from finishing my graduate
studies but with all of your support and our instructor’s guidance and patience
gave me the courage to move on and face the challenges of this course. Knowing
that we are all in these journey together makes a lot of difference. Your
postings in our discussion board and comments on our blogs reminded me that I
am not alone. Everyone’s contribution made me more confident and competent on
the subject matter.
It has been
an incredible journey knowing that everyone had overcome our fear and faced the
challenges of doing research. I am really thankful to all of you who had made
this course interesting and worthwhile. I believe that anyone can learn and
accomplish things, if we take time and put our hearts in it.
Thank you everyone and good luck to all of us. See
you on our next journey!
