wk 5 final

Literature Review-Final Paper
For the Final Paper, you are will write a literature review.  During each week of the course, you will develop an annotated bibliography of scholarly articles relevant to a chosen theme of cultural competence in early childhood education.   The themes are as follows:

1. Culturally Relevant Methods
2. Anti-Bias Curriculum
3. Diverse Family Structures
4. Multicultural Education 

You will finalize the literature review by adding two additional scholarly resources that highlight the necessity of designing a classroom to meet the needs of diverse learners.  Be sure to align your selection with your chosen theme.  The finalized literature review must include the scholarly resources submitted in Weeks Two through Four, and include two additional scholarly resources in Week Five.     In your literature review, please address the following: 

1. An introduction that provides the reader with an understanding of what research has been completed and why the topic under investigation is important to early childhood education. 
2. The common ideas or themes in the scholarly resources that you have found. 
3. Present an analysis of what you have learned based your research.
4. Translate the research findings into real world classroom application. 
5. Summarize the information and explain how the information from these articles will impact you in your career. 
6. Explain how your chosen topic is connected to the other themes making up overall cultural competence.  The four themes to address are: Culturally Relevant MethodsAnti-Bias CurriculumDiverse Family StructuresMulticultural Education 

The Literature Review must be three to four pages in length excluding the title page and reference page.  The review should be formatted according to APA guidelines.

the theme is diverse family structure

Runninghead: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 3

Annotated Bibliography

Shauna Deville

ECE 405

Instructor Lara

October 14, 2013

Phyllis Bronstein, JoAnn Clauson, Miriam Frankel Stoll and Craig L. Abrams. Parenting Behavior and Children’s Social, Psychological, and Academic Adjustment in Diverse Family Structures. Family Relations, 1993

The study by The National Council of Family Relations got conducted to measure up the difference in parenting and the children social, psychological and even the scholarly acclimatization across varied family structures. The family structure that got reviewed included two married biological parents, single parents, divorced, never married mothers, step parents, and remarried couples. The contents of the research revealed that the parents who remained strong in marriages remained more positive in handling their parental responsibilities as compared to families with different configurations. This was similar case for both adoptive and the biological parents. Additionally, children in these families showed positive adaptation to the academic and social matters. The research indicated that, there was greater problem to children adjusting from remarried couples. Actually, the children from these families showed that remarrying brought more problems in parenting than staying divorced. Significant variation got observed as well relating to the child’s gender. This was irrespective of the family structure that the child came from.

Considering the divorced, the research showed that younger children were more affected than their older counterparts were. However, the structural transitions elevated the stress level that the child experienced. The children who moved to step families responded negatively. The research went further to find out the individual and interpersonal factors that affected the child adjustments. Parenting behavior, family conflict and child gender were among the factors that the National Council of Family Relations concentrated with. The study showed that custodian parent’s performed better in parenting than the single parents after divorce. However, the case is opposite for the divorced custodians. The family conflict after divorce also affected the rate of child’s response to academic, psychological and social matters. The gender of the child in accordance to the parents’ divorce remained inconsistent. In some cases, girls got more affected by divorced parents than the boys. However, studies showed that the opposite got noted as well. This showed that the effect was on both sides of the gender.

The article from the National Council of family conflict is quite relevant to my chosen theme. This is because, the article explains on different family structures and how they affect the development of children. Additionally, it tackles on different structures bringing into limelight the structures that have not been into the public knowledge such as the divorced custodians. From the article, I learnt that, all students could never perform equally. This is not because of poor understanding and brain development but other factors such as family structure. It now becomes very easy to understand why some children perform poorly in class and why they do not relate positively with their peers.

The scope of the article is well covered. The writers of the research scrutinized all family structures, leaving insignificant number of structures that have not been tackled. However, the researcher seemed to have concentrated more on the divorced than the other structures. One would quickly conclude that only the divorce issue affects children social, academic and psychological adjustments. Additionally, the article is authentic since a body that deals with family matters has written it. The researchers are very conversant with the topic they handled. The article has really changed my perspective on family structures. The reason behind this is that the perception that I had was that, custodians never make good parents.

Running head: DIVERSE FAMILY STRUCTURES
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Diverse family structures

Shauna Deville

ECE 405

Instructor Lara

October 21, 2013

Webb, N. B. (2001). Culturally diverse parent-child and family relationships: A guide for social
workers and other practitioners. New York: Columbia University Press.

Cultural factors have great influence on the relationship between parents and children. The author of this book says, “Everyperson has a cultural identity which influences the way he or she communicates with others”. This communication greatly influences the family relationships. Families tend to reveal their values to the outside through the way they socialize with their kids. However, the social environments such as schools tend to also have a great impact on the children’s social development. In most cases, the different social environments that a child is subjected ends up confusing him or her. For example, if a child comes across beliefs that are different from the ones at home, he or she ends up in a dilemma. He or she is unable to identify which beliefs to follow or which ones to ignore. This ends up leading to diversity in family structures, as the parents’ and kids’ beliefs tend to differ as a result of kids’ exposure to different social environments (4).

This book is of great importance to the theme that I have chosen, as it clearly explains the how diversity occurs in families. It is also relevant to real-world classroom application, as it explains how the schools tend to change the kids beliefs, thus bringing diversity in their families. According to this book, the kids tend to follow the beliefs of their classmates, as they do not want to be seen to be different from others, by following their parents’ beliefs.

This resource provides a good explanation on the topic that I have selected. This book provides a clinical example of how diversity in families occurs. As a result of this, it has not changed my thinking about my topic. Instead it has given more information about my topic. It has enlarged my thinking on the topic, as it has provided me with more tools to face my topic with.

References

Webb, N. B. (2001). Culturally diverse parent-child and family relationships: A guide for social
workers and other practitioners. New York: Columbia University Press.

Running Head: DIVERSE FAMILY STRUCTURES 1

DIVERSE FAMILY STRUCTURES 2

Week 4 assignment 2

Shauna Deville

ECE 405

Instructor Lara

October 28, 2013

Edwards, O.J (2009). The Many Kinds of Family Structure in Our Communities. NAEYC. Retrieved from

http://www.scoe.org/files/ccpc-family-structures

Several people in the United States picture a good childhood as one that is rooted in the traditional nuclear family. Despite the developing lifestyle and the ever-changing personal mobility, which characterizes modern society, a family remains the central element of a modern life. According to several people, families offer security, companionship, also as a determination of protection against the uncaring world. Over the decades, family structure and the society has undergone changes with different types of families emerging. This article examines the all the different types of family structures and its inherent dynamics. A nuclear family is the first article common in our diverse family structure. This type of family structure is traditionally thought of a parent and the sibling arrangement. This traditional family extends to the extended family structure, which consists of the grandparents, cousins, uncles, and aunts. Unlike the nuclear family, this kind of family structure does not have a strong bond in the nuclear family since they all do not leave under the same roof.

Single parenthood is another example of a family structure that the article describes where it can have either a father or another who is responsible in raising a child either adopted or born. Single parenthood can be circumstantial or by choice, or where at one time one parent is there or not at all. The article also describes a blended family, which consist of members from different members from two or more families. For example, step Dad, step Mum, and having variety of terms for the various family members. Sometimes it is hard to maintain a family with several members since there will always be conflicts, favors, and other petty things among the members. Some of the other example of the diverse family structure the article highlights includes trans-racial adoptive family, co-custody family, foster family, gay and lesbian family, and transnational family.

This resource offers guidelines of how parent teachers and people involved with children can be build an environment that will suit different children from different background and families. This article can give educators and the school administration on how they can build an environment that would incorporate and respect student’s families. Family involvement in their student’s life brings improved teaching through generating a positive attitude among teachers and upraising teacher’s self-esteem. The article gives example of how children from different families are supposed to be treated to ensure they have a swift since each family offers different cultural based behaviors for raising their children. The author’s involvement in other article writing such as “Anti-bias Education for Children and Ourselves” gives the credibility of using this article.

In my opinion, I believe the article is useful. By presenting, the different examples of the diverse family structure, leaves me thinking on the different issues that those kinds of families they face in the everyday life also how we as a community can do to make their life easier in relating with other people. The article gives examples and opinions, behaviors, and the reaction of different children in any family structure. It offers opinions on how parents, guardians, and the society should treat children of different family structure especially when they are in school.