Final Project-Research Guides
ADRIANNE MITCHELL
RESEARCH GUIDES
“Stages of Child Development”
LIBRARY 3
INSTRUCTOR D. LANEY
Contents
Research Guide Components
- Overview
- Library of congress subject headings
- Keywords
- Reference sources
- Print books
- Periodicals
- Website resources
- Conclusion
Overview
My topic is based on child development and the stages of child development, I know there a various stages children go through, from birth to adulthood, but I would really love to focus on childhood since it is a crucial point in our lives. Childhood prepares us for adulthood and for life, I wanted tofind out some of the critical elements associated with child development and I wanted to find resources that would prepare me if I were to do a research paper on this topic. My main reason for research topic is the fact that I have two small children under the age of six and kids really do say the craziest, funniest things. I would love to explore their thought process to see what I have in store and what is yet to come for me. Kids are fun, so where do the get their personalities from?
Library of Congress Subject Headings
5 exact subjects heading include:
Law and legislation
Research
Variation
Cross cultural studies
Child psychology
Keywords
*School psychology, *child development, *child psychology, *early childhood education and *emotions in children.
N o Boolean’s were used to obtain these keywords, I originally typed in child development which led me to child psychology which let me to the stages which then led me to development.
Reference sources
· The website below explains everything about child development in great detail. If you didn’t know the stages of child development before you would after reading this.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761557692_5/development_
child.html#s23
· This website below gives background on child development and gives you external links to access for further in depth information.
· This website gives you parenting tips for children thorough their stages, it gives a breakdown of all the stages through adulthood. It gives you problems through different stages and how to handle them and what the issues are in detail. It is actually a phenomenal website if you are doing a research paper. http://www.cdipage.com/development.htmhttp://britannica.com/ebchecked/
topic/459096/jean-piaget#ref=ref179726&tab=active~checked%2citems~checked&title=jean%20piaget%20--%20britannica%20online%20encyclopedia
Print books
· understanding child development by Rosalind Charlesworth
This book explains child development and its stages for those learning about it, and might even be used for a school book; the author has written many of these sort of books with new editions every couple of years. I got this source from amazon.com.
· ages and stages: a parent's guide to normal childhood development by charles e. schaefer
Covers all five areas of psychological health—emotional, cognitive, friendship/relationships, personal growth, and morality, the Author has written several books on child development.
· Child psychology : a contemporary viewpoint / E. Mavis Hetherington
This is a book and it is also a CD and a videocassette, retrieved it from worldcat.org, it is the breakdown of child psychology and it was the most recent in the search.
Periodicals
“THE EFFECTS OF UNIVERSAL PRE-K ON COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT”
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1507313471&sid=4&fmt=3&clientid=27896&rqt=309&vname=pqd
“Calendar Time for Young Children”
“Promoting language and literacy skills in the early years: lessons from interdisciplinary teaching and learning”
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?rqt=511&sid=2&restriction=4&ts=1217378535
These scholarly journals are relevant to my topic because it explains the effects of something on a stage of development.
If you look up proquest in the library database and type in your subject and filter what type of source you want it from, it brings up several related topics. This applies to all the
Periodicals listed above. The intended audiences for all of these articles are students and parents. All of the articles have something in common they focus on the effects of obstacles in child development.
Website resources
· Ages and Stages in Child Development
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/topic_child_development
This website stood out to me because every other search result was a .com domain, this website was an .edu domain making it an education website. When I looked into the website I see that it had sources cited, it was last updated on June 12, 2008, and the source comes from university of Florida. It was current and went into depth about my topic; it was extremely relevant to the topic I was researching. It reviewed all the stages of child development it also included footnotes for citation and interactive things parents could do during the different childhood to adolescent stages. I found this feature to be really cool, useful information I could apply.
· Child development: stages of development
http://www1.dshs.wa.gov/ca/fosterparents/training/chidev/cd02.htm
this time when I was looking for a website I was looking for something a little kid friendly or something that would appeal to a parent or to an individual not researching child development but just curious about it. I stumbled upon this website which has a .gov domain, meaning it is used for informational purposes. The website doesn’t specify when last updated that was a downfall if I was looking for currency, but I was more focused on relevancy and this website hit it right on the nail. It turn out that this website is an ABC guide for child development for foster parents, this is perfect because it accommodated a different crown a crowd of possibly new parents that would like an in depth overview of child development.
Conclusion
This concludes my final project I have learned a great deal about child development that I wasn’t aware of before just by doing this project. It was great because I can know understand the though process of my children be able to interact and relate with them in ways they understand. I know will apply all my research capabilities for future projects, work purposes and for life.
