Critical Analysis on Early Childhood Education

Running head: Early Childhood Education
Critical Analysis
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EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
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Introduction:
This report is prepared to critically analyse the researches on Early Childhood
Education which are also known as Nursery Education. Early Childhood Education is nothing
but a branch of education which helps to educate children from their birth to the age of eight
(Bredekamp et al., 2014). Being a part of human society, it is necessary to educate children
about their cultures with care. While teaching kids, it is essential to teach them about their
cultural emotions and traditional values, along with these children should also have an
excellent grip on their mother language (Elango 2015). This report consists a detail
discussion and comparison about the ethical, methodological and technical aspects of two
types of research. Lastly, it will conclude with the identification of the most effective method
of early childhood education and will also explain the reason behind it.
Analysis of the data collection method:
While analysing different data collection method of two types of research it has been
observed that research represented in Article 1 has opted the electrical survey procedure for
data collection, whereas the study described on Article 2 has chosen a semi-structured
interview to gather the research data. According to (Mukherji & Albon, 2018, p17, 260) the
quantitative data collection procedure is an active process of collecting accurate data. The
approach of qualitative data collection method used to survey to quantify the threats or
opinions by regulating a statistical data collection survey that will be represented in a
mathematical format. The author has also stated that quantitative data collection methods are
more structured and productive. However, Taylor et al., 2014 have argued that the data
collection method conducted by the research which is represented in Article 2 is more useful
as it has chosen the qualitative data collection method to gather data. The qualitative data
collection method is a procedure for collecting data by conducting a structured or semi-

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structured interview. As the qualitative data collection method is generally an exploratory
data collection procedure, the effectiveness of this procedure is high. While supporting the
qualitative semi-structured interview process Patton et al., 2015 has also said that this process
is more understandable as offers individuals to share their opinion with definitive answers
since semi-structured interview does not follow any strict rules to conducts a particular
meeting. Since the electrical survey follows the numerical and statistical data collection and
representation procedure. This data collection process has a disadvantage over the method of
the semi-structured interview. In order to support the fact that electrical survey procedure is
more effective than semi-structured interview Brinton et al., 2017 has stated that it will be
easier to analyse any data if it follows the quantitative data collection procedure as by using
this technique it will effectively help to represent any graph and tables from raw data which is
exceptionally helpful to the investigator to analyse the gathered data. Whereas, supporting the
fact that qualitative data collection method such as semi-structured interview used to
assemble a detail of problematic areas to have a clear concept about the problems McCusker
et al., 2015 has argued that it helps to collect more accurate information which is more
worthy for mentioned research. Hence, after analysing both the research critically, it has been
observed that the data collection method used in Article 2 is more accurate.
Ethical Consideration:
While analysing the provided researches, several moral consideration has been
observed. Critical analysis of those considerations is explored below. According to (Mukherji
& Albon, 2018, p117) the article 1 it has used a quantitative survey to gather feedback from
the teachers who are involved with the mentioned approach. However, research represented
on article 2 has opted for a semi-structured interview which has included the teachers as well
as the families of their students to gather accurate and unbiased feedback from the