Child-Centered Case Study on a Child with Additional Educational Need

Topic – A child-centered case study focusing on a child with an additional
educational need.
Methodology
The methodology of research deals with the categories of techniques that is used for
conducting the above mentioned research. For this particular research study, primary
data has been collected for understanding the educational requirement of child, the
interests and the social interaction with his peers (Creswell & Creswell, 2017).This
paper takes a child-centred case study to focus on a boy with English as an additional
language for a period of seven weeks to demonstrate the effectiveness of inclusion and
provisions that EAL learners get in a certain mainstream setting. In order to protect the
true identity of the child and the school implied, a fantasy name had been given to
conceal the real data. Assessingthe child’s education need, now named as Bob, would
require the understanding of his home language, parental support, interests, past
experiences, teacher’s preconceptions, and ability to socially interact with his peers
(Orr, 2001).
For this research paper, a qualitative approach is chosen. This is because
qualitative research refers to the investigative research process. This method is generally
used for the understanding of perceptions and the views. The qualitative apprach in the
research is chosen since its offers the visions to various and wide rannge of problems
that furthermore helps in the development of the theries and the concepts for the
potential quantitaive resaerch (Lampard & Pole, 2015). This approach involves
exploration of data through observations taken in regards to his learning, the support
given by the school, interactions with his peers indoors and outdoors, annotations in
different subject lessons, at play time outside, and notes ofa questionnaireanswered by
his parents and teachers (Cohen, 2011). The qualitative approach is suitable for this