I thought that some of the particular ways of finding out perceptions and capturing the emotional and psychological development of the children in the film was interesting but at the same time puzzling. By comparing two different model homes that look much different in appearance, influenced the perception and beliefs of these small children in believing a certain way of how people live and act based on the appearance of the homes. The perception of all subjects in this film believed that children in a more attractive and much larger home, were nicer, happier, and would grow up to be more successful than those of a less attractive home. The less attractive home belonged to kids who's parents weren't nice to them and put "bumps" on them (Identity Crisis: Self-Image in Childhood, 2005). The occupational belief from one child was that the more attractive home belonged to a teacher where as the less attractive home belonged to house keeper.
Another comparison tool utilized to capture the psychological development of children was comparing and contrasting the skin color of children to a range of questions with various skin colors and who they thought were nice, mean, likely to play with, less likely to play with, etc. The test also suggested that over half of the child participants thought that there skin color would change as they got older. Most of the children associated the white children depicted in the pictures as being "nice" and the minority or children of skin color other than white as "mean" or "nasty" (Identity Crisis: Self- Image in Childhood, 2005).
The study in the film also suggested that children from wealthier and most often stable families have a better outlook towards advantages and future occupational opportunities. My belief is that parents that are wealthier try to introduce and have more of a means to provide their children with more opportunities that instill this perception that they can do more and have more advantages as they grow older.
I really appreciated the critiques you brought up of the study methods used in the Time of Our Child research - the critiques are important for understanding how research can have both benefits for helping us increase understanding as well as shortcomings in terms of being able to measure what is intended.
ReplyDeleteYou did a good job of bringing up details and examples from the course materials. One area for improvement is in clearly identifying the parts of the rubric you're addressing. At times, it's not clear which part of the rubric you're talking about. In future posts, I'd suggest labeling them if that will help with organizing the posts.
Additionally, the end citation references are missing - be sure to include these in future posts.
Good work!