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STEP 1: Defining the Problem/Stating the Research Question

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STEP 1: Defining the Problem/Stating the Research Question

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Our physical environment affects the health in children, therefore, more awareness should be brought to attention because waste not only harms our air and land, but can create problems in the growth of these children. How can emphasizing the importance of recycling and becoming environmentally aware, impact children's growth and development? The amount of landfill continues to accumulate over time and harm the nature of our environment. Many individuals tend to turn a blind eye to this issue simply because we are not aware of the consequences of what our actions are doing. We know that our waste is ending up somewhere on this planet, but we tend to forget that somewhere eventually leads to everywhere if this problem continues. There are many articles and awareness that promotes recycling and helping the environment, but it is harder to communicate this issue to older individuals because many have already formed the habit not to be aware of this situation in the first place. If steps are taken to engrave the idea of properly recycling our trash and displaying evidence of the current issues that have already been placed to children and younger individuals, this can help the next generation help clean up and better the environment in a way that could be more instinctive rather than forced. The idea of recycling is usually limited to just putting away paper or plastic, but it goes beyond these matters. There are regulations on specific batteries that can be thrown away, but many people do not take advantage of this concept or many simply do not know about this process to begin with. When these younger individuals eventually grow up and start participating in society, they could help find better and more efficient ways to help solve this issue whether it is in their own home, social community or their workplace.  These younger generations will eventually start running companies and taking over what we have created. Rather than allowing the actions of carelessly throwing away waste to continue, which results to more harm to our environment and land for the new generations to come, we can improve the problem so that it would not become a greater issue to deal with in the future. By taking the actions of recycling, we are not only improving the land we live on, but we are able to create new products out of the collected and processed materials that would otherwise be thrown away as trash.

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When I first started with the topic for this project, I had only considered the environment itself and how there could be beneficial factors for the environment that we live in. Once I started developing my research question, I realized that the pollution not only affects our future living, but can make an impact on a child that has not even been born yet. My bias toward this project was not being open to the idea that there may be many factors affected by this issue that was outside of what I was originally visioning. Unconsciously, I did not think to consider the health of children being affected by factors that was outside of the mothers control. Especially learning about early childhood education, I focused mainly on the topics that mentioned harmful toxins that can affect the baby’s growth if the person carrying the child was not watching what she was eating or drinking. My bias was affected by this idea the most by not considering external factors that can harm a developmental growth. The research has influenced my perception of disciplinary perspective by guiding my environmental awareness approach and incorporating this problem with a child’s cognitive and physical development. By taking an interdisciplinary approach on my project, I was able to map out the possible directions I could go within my research of understanding how being environmentally aware can influence a development. Through interdisciplinary, I extended my search into looking at factors that influence and can impact the communities from not realizing the environmental problem that is affecting the children of the future. These factors involved looking at what causes from the community amplify the resistance of cleaning up the environment such as considering low-SES and underprivileged communities that are not able to have the resources to recycle properly. I expanded into looking a political standpoint of where the government could help this cause by providing more action into cleaning and improving the environment around specific jurisdictions that may have it worse than other areas. Interdisciplinarity approach helped me correlate these findings into children’s physical development by considering chronic diseases that children could obtain from bacteria and infections within the environment and if the problem isn’t handled then the result of diseases will continue to happen, which could lead to damages in growth development. Interdisciplinary approach can be applicable beyond the classroom by incorporating ideas and information from multiple disciplines, such as the way the projects have been handled in class. When observing a subject or problem through multiple disciplines, it allows a wide expansion of different opinions and information that can sync together for a better understanding of not only a single discipline, but multiple at the same time. When looking at an idea through an interdisciplinary approach, one is not limited to one set of information alone to tackle a better understanding of something, but rather creates room for growth of newer understandings. The growth from this approach in life can help facilitate stronger ideas and lead to new ideas to experiment and observe so that we are not limited to one fixated discipline.

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For the draft of the assignment, I kept it concise, but my feedback informed me to remember to make sure my word count would have 500 words so that points would not be taken off. I also realized I did not mention more of my other playposit video, but rather talked more about the behavioral and learning disabilities playposit. I was sure to add in more information about the details I had learned from the early childhood development playposit. I was also reminded to display my key insights that were discussed in class for my resources and I managed to find many information to back up my research so I focused on the top articles I felt like would better help my understanding of intertwining the multiple disciplines into my work. I was able to look back on the video of early childhood development and put in factors of the information I learned from Dr. Kwon, especially by being able to give an example of one of her current research projects that were mentioned from that video.

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Sora, thanks for your submission. Followings are my suggestions for your successful STEP5 component. First, make it sure to have 500 words (without the reflection part) in your final draft. If you do not meet the word limit, points will be taken off from your final grade. Second, you need to bring insights from two playposit videos you watched. You only mentioned one video so make it sure to add one more and bring insights from two videos.  Like in the STEP4, make it sure to name two videos so that we can track/grade what you watched. Lastly, your need to post an expanded resource table which contains key insights discussed in class (Disciplinary Perspective; Thesis; Assumption; Theory Name; Key Concepts; Method; Phenomena Addressed; Author's Bias). It seems like you already have the skeleton of the table so fill in all the blanks! Hope this is helpful! If you have any question, let me know anytime.

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I considered two discipline insights for my research, early childhood development and behavior and learning disabilities. Behavior and learning disabilities that are high incidence focuses on two emotional behavioral disabilities and learning disabilities. Through this discipline, these findings aim to discover the causes and awareness of disabilities that children have that may not be as obvious to point out. But as mentioned in my earlier posts, early childhood development favors more in my insights of how bringing more awareness of pollution can help the growth and development of young children. The key elements from this discipline is by covering the basis of a child being born and observing what may affect the arrival of the child at birth and what possible effects some teratogens can have on the development of the child’s cognitive abilities and physical outcomes. Within the name of the discipline itself, early childhood development specializes in focusing on children from birth to adolescence. This range of age is a crucial time of child development; therefore, it best helps bring insights for my problem. The source of conflict within these two disciplines is that early childhood development observes the overall growth of an individual, from all directions such as dealing with the brains development as well as skeletal and muscle growth. This discipline studies environmental factors as well as genetic influences, along with prenatal influences that may cause troubling complications for a new born or a young child. Behavioral and learning disabilities aim to look at the educational perspective of a child’s development. This disability aims to look at specific abilities and going in debt about a particular disability, such as Kathleen Kimball describes in the PlayPosit video, specific learning abilities include the imperfect ability to listen, read, speak, think, write, spell, and do mathematical calculations. Although, both disciplines aim to look at the possible effects that could have attributed to a student’s learning ability or growth ability, they also differ in what they aim to find in their studies because early childhood development not only focuses on the cognitive abilities of a child, but the overall development considering multiple factors outside of learning and behavioral abilities.

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STEP 2: Justify Interdisciplinary Approach to Problem 

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STEP 2: Justify Interdisciplinary Approach to Problem 

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Hazardous waste is affecting the air and environment that causes harm to children development. Around the globe, there are multiple countries that have already met cautious measures on the pollution scale. The air becomes harmful to drink and affects the air that people are inhaling daily. The complexity of this research comes from dealing with various locations and many different types of harmful waste that is already soiling away. Using interdisciplinary studies, important insights can come from child growth and development and behavioral and learning disabilities. Within these two disciplines, observing the environment and pollution accumulating around a child, studies (what studies? you need a citation) could show the effects of a child’s cognitive and physical growth. If a child’s development is impaired, it could correlate to behavioral and learning disabilities. (You will need more research to back up your claim. I think I can follow your thoughts but still not so convinced by how environmental pollution affects a child's cognitive and physical growth.) Although, genetics plays a role in development, our surroundings and environment plays a drastic role in the way our mind and body develope (develop) over time. Cultures vary and as culture varies, countries have different levels of pollution that some become accustom to, but is harder for some to adjust to new environments than others. (Here, again, you will need research or study to support your claim)

Rather than looking at the disciplines separately, looking through both disciplines can help get a clearer understanding because there is no single discipline that overlooks this problem. There is focus on the idea of recycling itself to help protect the planet, but more attention should be drawn onto how recycling could not only impact the land, but the youth we are raising to take over in the future.

This is a problem that not only continues, but gets worse with greater population and industrialization in major cities. Nature is withering away its resources because society continues to harm animals and areas that should be protected. Trash continues to pile up on anywhere on land and waste continues to be distributed into our oceans. Children who are growing up in certain areas around the world are only surrounded by contaminated waters and land. This causes bacteria and viruses to break out and could possibly lead to harming other countries as well. We are affecting the present and harming the future generations to come.

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The feedback for my step 3 was helpful due the fact that Aram helped me see which discipline was more relevant to my topic. I had originally aimed the best discipline toward behavior and learning disabilities, but as my topic views the growth in children’s developments correlated with the environment, the discipline of child growth and development is the more accurate way of looking at this topic. I was also geared into explaining more about my site visit and going into more detail about what happened on the site and who I interviewed. Also, rather than simply telling me what I had done wrong, I was given feedback on what I had done right or given reassurance of the direction I was going with my topic. With this reassurance, it also helped me go further into detail in my ideas and the direction I am trying to go with this research. I’m able to focus and really simplify the research idea. The feedback helped me narrow down my thoughts and ideas with my research instead of being scattered into multiple directions.

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STEP 3: Identify relevant disciplines (REVISED)

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STEP 3: Identify relevant disciplines (REVISED)

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Can emphasizing the importance of recycling and becoming environmentally aware, impact children’s physical development? When looking into this research question, this idea is relevant to child growth and development because to determine the effects on a child’s physical growth, this discipline looks specifically into both the cognitive and physical growth development of a child starting from the moment they are born to adolescence. It is also correlated with environment consciousness and friendliness because I am comparing the two topics to find a possible result in my research about how the corruption of our environment influences a child’s physical development. Other relevant disciplines can include behavioral and learning disabilities because if you were to look at it from an interdisciplinary perspective, behavior and learning disabilities can be possible outcomes from harmful substances affecting a child’s development and causing these disabilities to form, outside of genetic influences. The most relevant discipline would likely be child growth and development when considering the outcomes of the child’s cognitive development. This discipline walks through the process of a child's growth, both cognitive and physical. The discipline helps work through the start of a child from birth, therefore being able to see if there are any causes or teratogens from the environment that may harm the child even before it breathes into this world.

When I went to my site visit at Live Thrive Atlanta, the idea of bringing environmental awareness was a strong factor in helping the growth of future plans in making an effect on our land and current ways of living. Children are the future and they have the potential to help carry on the knowledge of properly disposing waste which could help solve the problem of compose wasting away, but they correlate with each other because if the environment were to continue to diminish, then it could cause more harmful affects on children development, therefore both criteria’s could both decrease in improvement. On site, I interviewed the executive director, Peggy, about the function of their work at Live Thrive. Earlier that day, they had just held a tour/field trip for younger children visiting from an academy. Peggy also informed me that the following Thursday of my visit, an older group of students were coming to view the site from GA Tech. Peggy explained to me that the tours consisted of walking the children throughout the facility and being able to observe what products are placed in certain bins, along each bin with specific labels, there were fun facts written about the waste product as a way to educate the person who is throwing their items away. After the tours, they usually follow the visit by providing some activities, most of the time it consists of arts and crafts with some recycled material or simply drawing for the younger children. Peggy aims to educate the community, rather than simply asking them to be environmentally friendly, but if the community realizes WHY they must recycle certain products, then it is more likely that they will continue to do the work and spread the word to other friends or families. Live thrive aimed to simply get the information across to individuals who were coming on the site so that the information could spread further out into the community, starting with children so that they could even make the changes in their own home with their relatives and parents.

The whole phenomena about the environment affecting a child’s development goes further than simply throwing waste and allowing it to accumulate over time. When determining environmental pollution, multiple factors come into play. Low-SES communities influence waste build up because less fortunate communities may not be provided the proper tools and actions to make the changes in their community. The officials who are in charge of these underprivileged communities are also involved in not helping the community better the environment for children because of the actions they choose not to take to improve these problems. The government chooses not to help clean up the facilities, therefore, the people within the community does not act upon on it either. When comparing this to a child’s physical development, if a child were to get sick due to the harmful factors in their environment, they could seek help in getting better, but if actions are not taken to remove those harmful factors from the original place of where that child had gotten sick in the first place, then the problem will come around again and persist to continue because nothing was done to fix it in the first place. Chronic diseases can develop, hence, harming the cognitive and physical growth of a child simply because of harmful toxins that are not being removed from the situation. The problem continues to circle around and persist, which is why society needs to act upon this problem and find a solution to find a permanent fix, otherwise, the unfortunate situations will happen over and over again.

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You missed your deadline for the step 1 first draft which was midnight 6/10/18. Make it sure to re-visit the guideline for your step1 and complete your draft by 6/14/18. You need to define your research question and clearly address what you want to pursue for this project. You will find more detailed information about word limits and what needs to be addressed in your step 1 on the rubric uploaded on the iCollege.

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Sora, you have a good start. I think you did a good job meeting the standard components of the rubric. For the better grade, first, I think you should work more on the part where you explain the possible discipline. You provided two discipline choices, Child growth and development and behavioral and learning disabilities. I know that the latter discipline may connects to your problem tightly but I feel like the first discipline also has a lot to offer. Second, it would be better if you put more insights from the site visit. Who did you have an interview with? What kinds of conversation that is related to your problem was from the interview? Provide some insights from your site visit experiences and the interview.

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By using the comments from my first draft for Step 2, I realized that I didn’t make much connection to the interdisciplinary part of my research. Aram’s feedback helped me reflect on my research because I was addressing the problem more toward recycling and harming the environment itself when I was originally trying to focus on the affect pollution and waste has on a child’s development. I needed to display more focus on what exactly the waste is doing on to children’s health, but also find more examples on certain situations that has already seen the problem take effect on these younger individuals. Dealing with interdisciplinary, I am beginning to understand more about the connections I need to make within two disciplines. Interdisciplinary is by combining disciplines together because of the correlation they could have on a new finding. With this research, I am getting a better understanding of finding the connection and addressing the relationship between them.

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Literature search about pollution itself displays volume about the harmful effects of pollution on the air we breathe and how it impacts climate change. When comparing these changes in our environment to childhood development, literature shows that the pollution affects our overall health as we live and breathe today, but it talks about the affects it has on fetuses in the womb, which is the starting ground for child development. While in the womb, that is where we begin life itself and begin our development. When mothers are pregnant, they are told to be careful about putting harmful toxins into their body for the sake of not harming the child’s development. What most people overlook is the harmful toxins that they may be breathing in without the conscious awareness of what the problem is in the first place. The article, Temperature Extremes, Health, and Human Capital helps distribute the knowledge of the simply the heat in our environment making an impact on child growth. As pollution accumulates, our climate change begins to shift as well. This climate change due to the waste we continue to release into the environment leads to one example of heat exhaustion. As an adult, we are less likely to notice the effects heat has on our well being, but as young children and babies who aren’t born yet, it has a bigger impact on their development because their body continues to grow and adjust to their surroundings and bodies adjustments. The articles mentions the impact of heat related illnesses, which tends to get worse with the additional problems of smog and ozone pollution. With heat itself, it leads to long term consequences when a fetus is effected by the harmful toxins in the air, but also high temperatures can make learning more difficult for children. When learning becomes difficult due to the natural environment, it is hard to push away from the air that we breathe. By simply breathing our polluted air, difficulty learning can slow cognitive growth in children and affecting their proper way of development. Watching the PlayPosit, I looked at the childhood development video which Dr. Kwon mentions Bronfenbrenner’s belief that children are affected by many layers of their environment which makes an impact on child growth. She mentioned the systems in which they are categorized. Bronfenbrenner’s exosystem is sectioned into working with the community itself and family and the macrosystem holds culture, society, and policy. When looking at the exosystem, the environment makes an impact on a child’s growth due to the community itself or the nature of our world. Although these factors can impact a child, the child also impacts the environment. In this case, what you give onto the environment or people, is what is given back to you. This being said, if a child took part in engaging in environmental awareness and spreading this knowledge onto the family, friends, and the community, this could lead to small changes leading to bigger impacts on what the child could gain from the outcome of helping to clean the environment. If a child or individual doesn’t help to pursue in fixing this issue, then the issue continues to persist and will continue to cause harm to the development of a child’s growth and our environment itself.

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I considered two discipline insights for my research, early childhood development and behavior and learning disabilities. Behavior and learning disabilities that are high incidence focuses on two emotional behavioral disabilities and learning disabilities. Through this discipline, these findings aim to discover the causes and awareness of disabilities that children have that may not be as obvious to point out. But as mentioned in my earlier posts, early childhood development favors more in my insights of how bringing more awareness of pollution can help the growth and development of young children. The key elements from this discipline is by covering the basis of a child being born and observing what may affect the arrival of the child at birth and what possible effects some teratogens can have on the development of the child’s cognitive abilities and physical outcomes. Within the name of the discipline itself, early childhood development specializes in focusing on children from birth to adolescence. This range of age is a crucial time of child development; therefore, it best helps bring insights for my problem. The source of conflict within these two disciplines is that early childhood development observes the overall growth of an individual, from all directions such as dealing with the brains development as well as skeletal and muscle growth. This discipline studies environmental factors as well as genetic influences, along with prenatal influences that may cause troubling complications for a new born or a young child. Behavioral and learning disabilities aim to look at the educational perspective of a child’s development. This disability aims to look at specific abilities and going in debt about a particular disability, such as Kathleen Kimball describes in the PlayPosit video, specific learning abilities include the imperfect ability to listen, read, speak, think, write, spell, and do mathematical calculations. When comparing the behavioral learning and development video with the early childhood development playposit featuring Dr. Kwon, the similarities involve taking in consideration of the environmental impacts on a child’s cognitive and physical development. Both disciplines look at the environmental factors concerning parents, teachers, peers, or other outside factors that play a role in influencing the way a child grows. More internal factors are involved when looking at Dr. Kwon’s perspective because she works with more research and test results to find possible influences or results in what sources impact the growth. For example, Dr. Kwon works with a study on the mathematical academic standards on children that are influenced by cognitive factors and culture factors. Behavioral and learning disabilities look into reading and writing abilities, as well as some difficulties that children and even adults may have in being able to register learning and communicating in schools due to their disabilities that may have been caused by factors that impacted the child at birth and adolescence. Although, both disciplines aim to look at the possible effects that could have attributed to a student’s learning ability or growth ability, they also differ in what they aim to find in their studies because early childhood development not only focuses on the cognitive abilities of a child, but the overall development considering multiple factors outside of learning and behavioral abilities.

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STEP 2: Justify Interdisciplinary Approach to Problem (REVISED)

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STEP 2: Justify Interdisciplinary Approach to Problem (REVISED)

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Hazardous waste is affecting the air and environment that causes harm to children development. Around the globe, there are multiple countries that have already met cautious measures on the pollution scale. The air becomes harmful to breathe in and drinking water is starting to damage proper growth in young children. The complexity of this research comes from dealing with various locations and many different types of harmful waste that is already soiling away. Not only are there various regions to take in consideration, but it is difficult to address the magnitude of this problem to a society that already hears of this news, but chooses not to make the actions necessary for change. This approach requires reaching out to the public and addressing different techniques to solving the problem. This study is complex because it’s not the matter of dealing with a specific group of individuals and regions, but rather engraining this problem onto both children and adults. Children themselves don’t realize what harm they are being exposed to, so older individuals need to be the role models in this movement. Using interdisciplinary studies, important insights can come from child growth and development and behavioral and learning disabilities. Within these two disciplines, studies and observations can be used to calculate the developmental impacts on children and the changes that may have occurred over time as landfill accumulates. While observing the chemicals that go into our soil and water, in some regions, it’s becoming worse than others. Philadelphia has one of the highest lead problems in their water system, which is harming children’s mental growth by being raise in such an environment. Environmental studies can be combined child growth and developmental studies can help by observing the environment and pollution accumulating around a child in such areas and correlating the effects on a child’s cognitive and physical growth. If a child’s development is impaired, it could correlate to behavioral and learning disabilities. Although, genetics plays a role in development, our surroundings and environment plays a drastic role in the way our mind and body develop over time. Rather than looking at the disciplines separately, looking through both disciplines can help get a clearer understanding because there is no single discipline that overlooks this problem. There is focus on the idea of recycling itself to help protect the planet, but more attention should be drawn onto how recycling could not only impact the land, but the youth we are raising to take over in the future.

This is a problem that not only continues, but gets worse with greater population and industrialization in major cities. Children who are growing up in certain areas around the world are only surrounded by contaminated waters and land. This causes bacteria and viruses to break out and could possibly lead to harming further generations by carrying on diseases. We are affecting the present and harming the future generations to come.