Can you point me in the right direction for my research on Golden Time?
Q: I am a teaching assistant studying for my degree. I would like to do my research project on creating better behaviour through golden time. Is there any previous research on this that I can easily get hold of, and any ideas for a research question linked to this and children's views?
Jenny: I hope by now you have received
our ‘Better Behaviour Through Golden Time' book. If you look in that book
(p.23) there's a tiny contribution from Ian Read, Birley Spar Community Primary
School. They did research into what children enjoyed most about coming to their
school. 71% wrote that one of the things they most enjoyed was 'Golden Time'. I
think that you could do a very good simple piece of research. Ask for a think
storm from lots of children in different classes for 'things that children
might enjoy in our school', turn it into a questionnaire, get children to go
around and interview each other and turn their answers into clearly
understandable graphs. There is very little research on Golden Time. In 1997,
292 primary schools in Wiltshire and Swindon were surveyed about 'Circle Time'.
I went to have a quick look at it but they didn't look at 'Golden Time' at all.
The area is ripe for research. It would be wonderful if you could go ahead and
do some and post it onto our website. Good luck.
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