It has been a SKYPE whirl-wind recently and I have not got into regularly blogging. But I am back!
Everyone seems to be moving forward well. Module ones are on their lists of areas of learning. It is good to get an outline of each area of the learning then choose one to work on with your advisor. Then you can use the experience of writing that one to inform how you approach the rest.
Some Module ones are on Google+ which is different from BlogSpot. It is interesting you get used to what you know about. Now, for me, going to a different blog hosts is like going to a different country - different language and different ways to move around!
Module Two is a bit of a different pace that module one in that it is more a focus on looking outside of what you know where module one is about looking 'inside' to articulate what you know. It is best to decide on a general area of inquiry and then start to look at the general research methods that the handbook introduces you too. You might feel you are moving away from your question at times. But part of the point of this module is to learn a bit about research methods in order to shape how you will approach you inquiry. The methods themselves affect how you ask your questions; affect what the questions become.
Module Three: well its matter of hopping around and hoping too and getting on with collecting the data you planned to gather. Remember data gathering is not research it is just getting your ingredients the research is in the analysis you do - what you do with the literature, data and reflections. Not very comforting words. But once you are stuck into things you find a flow.
Well, my words of the week is transformation and transaction (maybe my words of the everything).
The transformation of learning is about allowing yourself to be permeable both as the teacher and as the student (and as the Place in which it is designated to happen):
Here is a lovely quote on that:
"If teaching is about thinking and not about complying with the one who holds the superordinate knowledge, if thinking is an encounter with the unthought, then for pedagogy to put us in relation with each other in ways we have never been before, for pedagogy to be a democratic civic pedagogy, it must create places in which to think about "we" without knowing already who "we" are. It must keep the future of what our engagements with those places make of us open and undecided" Ellsworth, E (2005) Places of Learning: Media, Architecture, Pedagogy. Routledge:Great Britian (p 94-95)
Adesola
Everyone seems to be moving forward well. Module ones are on their lists of areas of learning. It is good to get an outline of each area of the learning then choose one to work on with your advisor. Then you can use the experience of writing that one to inform how you approach the rest.
Some Module ones are on Google+ which is different from BlogSpot. It is interesting you get used to what you know about. Now, for me, going to a different blog hosts is like going to a different country - different language and different ways to move around!
Module Two is a bit of a different pace that module one in that it is more a focus on looking outside of what you know where module one is about looking 'inside' to articulate what you know. It is best to decide on a general area of inquiry and then start to look at the general research methods that the handbook introduces you too. You might feel you are moving away from your question at times. But part of the point of this module is to learn a bit about research methods in order to shape how you will approach you inquiry. The methods themselves affect how you ask your questions; affect what the questions become.
Module Three: well its matter of hopping around and hoping too and getting on with collecting the data you planned to gather. Remember data gathering is not research it is just getting your ingredients the research is in the analysis you do - what you do with the literature, data and reflections. Not very comforting words. But once you are stuck into things you find a flow.
Well, my words of the week is transformation and transaction (maybe my words of the everything).
The transformation of learning is about allowing yourself to be permeable both as the teacher and as the student (and as the Place in which it is designated to happen):
Here is a lovely quote on that:
"If teaching is about thinking and not about complying with the one who holds the superordinate knowledge, if thinking is an encounter with the unthought, then for pedagogy to put us in relation with each other in ways we have never been before, for pedagogy to be a democratic civic pedagogy, it must create places in which to think about "we" without knowing already who "we" are. It must keep the future of what our engagements with those places make of us open and undecided" Ellsworth, E (2005) Places of Learning: Media, Architecture, Pedagogy. Routledge:Great Britian (p 94-95)
Adesola
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