Your narrated presentation should describe and evaluate the significant contribution of four empirical research studies (i.e., peer-reviewed journal articles) that have examined how culture influences child development. Each journal article should examine a different area of development. Examples include (but are not limited to) cognitive development, language development, social development and emotional development.

• You should examine each paper individually, first starting with the key details of the article (i.e., the aims, methods, findings and conclusions).
• You should then summarise the significant contribution of the paper with regards to how it has added to our understanding of how culture influences child development.
• You should use the lessons on iLearn to establish an initial understanding of the topic area but to obtain higher marks, evidence of wider reading is required.
• In order to reach the highest grade bands, you should also demonstrate evaluation in the way of critiquing each research paper.
• You should focus on what the study has contributed to our understanding of the topic and then, to take your evaluation further, you could also outline the:
• limitations of the research and how future studies have/ may address these limitations;
• ethical dilemmas within the study and how these were/ should have been mitigated;
• and other perspectives or research studies that may contradict the findings of the study.