Criticism of Quitak’s Child observation Essay

Quitak for the first time explains that she is working on the assumption that the problematic aspects of our experience contain the maximum potential. However I think it is important to clarify from the out(a)set, how she reached this assumption, as the reader does not know whether she went into the observation with this belief or whether these assumptions were develop as a result of her observation. There is another important oversight relating to who the author actually is. She hasnt positively stated that she is a neighborly Work student, although this is implied when she states that her observations had implications for social work. Therefore it is difficult to ascertain her purpose for carrying out the observations.Furthermore Quitak fails to mention how she came to select the electric shaver included in her observations, how many an(prenominal) observation sessions took place and the length of the sessions. Therefore the reader is unable to measure whether there were a ny issues of bias involved in her selection process.The feature that she is the product of English middle class parents means she may be going into the study with particular assumptions, as she is observing a infant who has a Palestinian parent. A significant area which was lacking in her observations was her inability to tune in to Selenas inner world (pg 250), although Quitak does avow this omission. She didnt really try to question and understand Selenas doings or how she might be feeling when she demonstrated behaviour she didnt like, which meant her observation suffered as a result. King (2010) stresses the importance of to access the childs emotional world.