{"id":816,"date":"2013-01-19T18:04:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T18:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/?p=816"},"modified":"2013-01-19T18:04:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T18:04:51","slug":"research-in-the-early-years-a-step-by-step-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"Research in the early years &#8211; a step-by-step guide."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Jarvisbook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-817\" title=\"Jarvisbook\" src=\"http:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Jarvisbook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Research in the early years &#8211; a step-by-step guide \/ Pam Jarvis&#8230;[et al.] (2012) contains a chapter I co-authored with Pam Jarvis entitled &#8220;Reading for research: efficient use of your access to an academic library&#8221;. It was a fairly tricky challenge for me as I am less well experienced at writing for a narrow audience particularly at undergraduate level. It seems to be fine. The other obvious challenge was ensuring sources were up-to-date generally I steered clear of specifics but came down fairly stongly on suggesting a diverse range of finding aids. I also did a little rant about the importance of understanding precision and recall &#8211; and of course tackled social media. This is how the publishers describe the book:<br \/>\nThis new text is the only resource out there to address the needs of  today\u2019s early years students\/trainees and support them through every  stage of the early years research process.\u00a0 <em>Research in the Early Years<\/em> contains case study material in the form of\u00a0four fictional students\u2019  experiences, which run through the book. Readers follow these example  students through their dissertation module as they address common  problems, issues and pitfalls. Clear explanations and a  step-by-step approach are balanced with sufficient depth and rigour to  challenge those on undergraduate courses or following graduate  programmes such as EYPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Research in the early years &#8211; a step-by-step guide \/ Pam Jarvis&#8230;[et al.] (2012) contains a chapter I co-authored with Pam Jarvis entitled &#8220;Reading for research: efficient use of your access to an academic library&#8221;. It was a fairly tricky challenge for me as I am less well experienced at writing for a narrow audience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7,12,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}