Saturday, November 10, 2012

Research Simulation




Research Simulation

At this time I am still deciding what topic truly interest me. I am always concerned about the topic of poverty. Since I work in the city of Camden and have been a long time resident in the city, I have seen the affects that poverty can have on children and their families.  At the same time, I am interested in the study of children and grief. This topic interests me because my students seem desensitized about grief.  Maybe it is away to examine grief as it relates to poverty?

So far I have found a historian that has studied the city of Camden.  He has a website that he has dedicated his retired life to, which examines the history of Camden including the economical rise and fall of the city. I believe that his information will give me a start to describe what happened economically to this once highly industrialized city. 

If anyone have any insights or suggestions about either poverty of grief I would gladly appreciate the help. 

3 comments:

  1. Tarshia,

    Do you have students who have gone through grief situations? I was curious because I think that often there is a lack of experience or understanding for a child to truly grasp a situation.

    If they have experienced a situation where grieft would be a normal reaction, and had no reaction than you could definitely be on to something suggesting the correlation between poverty and grief. I will keep my eye out as I conduct research for any information that be of help to you.

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  2. Tarshia,I believe that this topic is important because children who live in poverty grow in environments that embrace inequality. I believe that your findings will help us to develop a deeper awareness about the disadvantages that these children face, and hopefully we become strong advocates for children to have more social justice.

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  3. Tarshia,

    I am also interesting in knowing about grief for children there is a site that I did look at www.worldvision.ca/About-Us/.../WorldWatch-201205-MayJun.pdf that gave me information on what happen to children when this happens. I also look up how to help children in their grief
    Helping Children Cope with Loss, Death and Grief - National ...
    www.nasponline.org/resources/crisis_safety/griefwar.pdf. This has help me to help a little girl in my class who loss her mother I felt so sorry for the little girl all I could do is show her more love and support.

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