8082 Assignment 2 Blog

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Assignment 2: Blog: Engaging Families in the Classroom Community

For this Assignment, you will continue your analysis of supportive learning environments by examining a dissertation focused on including families in the classroom community.

To Prepare:

Use the Walden Library to identify an early childhood dissertation, written within the last 5 years, that focuses on engaging families as important members of the broader classroom community. The dissertation you read should include in its literature review (Chapter 2) a discussion of family engagement in early childhood classroom communities and should reflect related principles of developmentally appropriate practice. 

Note:

· You may need to read/skim a number of dissertations before you find the ones you choose to use as the basis for this Assignment.

· Additional information needed to complete this Assignment should be available in Chapters 1 and 5 of the dissertations you choose.

Assignment 2 Task

After reading the dissertation, and in particular Chapters 1, 2, and 5, create a post for your blog summarizing the following:

· The title of the dissertation

· The early childhood problem researched in the dissertation along with a brief explanation of the study—study purpose, population/participants, methodology, data sources, and conclusions

· 3 resources used by the author, and why each was relevant to the study

· How this study reflects developmentally appropriate practice related to meaningful learning in supportive environments for young children.

· How the information gleaned from this dissertation may further your work related to fostering supportive learning environments through positive classroom cultures and classroom communities for young children and their families.

Please paste this post into your blog. Be sure to read through your peers’ blogs and note any resources that might inform your current and/or future early childhood practice and areas of possible research.