This blog is created to support conversation generated from and about the learning process for MA Professional Practice (MAPP) in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries (ACI) at Middlesex University.
Wednesday 18 October 2017
Module Two - thoughts and fields
We would like to hear what ideas people on Module Two are playing with in terms of inquiry. Please comment below with a summary of what area and ethical frameworks and questions you are looking at.
In the Module 2 Handbook it refers on page 37 to appendices 4 and 1 for examples of qualitative research models and also data collection instruments. I have checked the Handbook and also the general handbook and there are no appendices listed or on this file. Please can you advise where I might find the information. Many thanks
Hi all, I have been reading about different research inquiry methods data collection. I have also been doing a LOT of thinking and note-making based on my AOL's from Module 1 that could lead me to a research direction. I will be basing my research on inclusive dance (for people with disabilities) / integrated dance. If anyone knows of any groups, classes, organisations, individuals or companies, let me know!
One thought / consideration I've had, based on experience and a blog I read from a past module 2'er about a week ago, is how some practitioners can be resilient to share. I have been wondering why this might be.
I am hoping that the people I approach for research will be open to discussion and not suspicious of being judged or 'copied'! Of course, this is not always the case.
Hope your first few weeks are going well... Let us know where you're at.
I did work at a school in America called Chidren's Centre for Dance Education in Evansville, IN years ago. The ethos was "Every Child Should Dance" and so there were autistic children, those with down syndrome, 'troubled' children, and also those with sever scoliosis and other issues who danced often in my classes. I do not know if this is helpful, but the website is https://www.childdance.org. Perhaps, you will be able to speak with someone there. All the best.
I have been exploring Task 1. I must admit that I am still trying to figure out, find, or understand what I think and/or believe about the information presented in module 2. I would love to just be able to immediately say in this post what ethical frameworks and questions that I am looking at in terms of inquiry, but it seems like I am holding myself back. Every time I read the module 2 handbook, I find myself trying to understand with 'certainty' all of the information presented. I feel like this need to know things with certainty is a very dualistic approach to the material. Furthermore, I have become quite frustrated with myself in judgement, because I know this approach is holding me back. My frustration is not because I only see dance, knowledge, and the experience in the body in this dualistic way. My frustration comes in trying to work out how to take something that I have always approached (even without knowing it) from a non-positivist perspective and then articulate it in writing and research - tasks that I have always approached from a dualistic, positivist perspective.
Anyhow, all that being said, I am attempting to explore how these different frameworks will benefit me in my research. My inquiry, I believe, is somewhere around the idea of positive psychology movement and how much beliefs and mental/self talk affect - if at all - dance ability and/or execution in technique. Is there research out there to suggest the part positive mental attitudes has in dance? Is it linked scientifically with brain research? physiological research?
http://caterpillarlaura.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/task-1-exploring-notions-of-knowledge.html
ReplyDeleteI have been completing task 1 this week and exploring the notions of knowledge, uncertainty and positivism/non positivism
In the Module 2 Handbook it refers on page 37 to appendices 4 and 1 for examples of qualitative research models and also data collection instruments. I have checked the Handbook and also the general handbook and there are no appendices listed or on this file. Please can you advise where I might find the information. Many thanks
ReplyDeleteHi all,
ReplyDeleteI have been reading about different research inquiry methods data collection.
I have also been doing a LOT of thinking and note-making based on my AOL's from Module 1 that could lead me to a research direction.
I will be basing my research on inclusive dance (for people with disabilities) / integrated dance.
If anyone knows of any groups, classes, organisations, individuals or companies, let me know!
One thought / consideration I've had, based on experience and a blog I read from a past module 2'er about a week ago, is how some practitioners can be resilient to share. I have been wondering why this might be.
I am hoping that the people I approach for research will be open to discussion and not suspicious of being judged or 'copied'!
Of course, this is not always the case.
Hope your first few weeks are going well...
Let us know where you're at.
Imogen
Hi Imogen,
DeleteI did work at a school in America called Chidren's Centre for Dance Education in Evansville, IN years ago. The ethos was "Every Child Should Dance" and so there were autistic children, those with down syndrome, 'troubled' children, and also those with sever scoliosis and other issues who danced often in my classes. I do not know if this is helpful, but the website is https://www.childdance.org. Perhaps, you will be able to speak with someone there. All the best.
I have been exploring Task 1. I must admit that I am still trying to figure out, find, or understand what I think and/or believe about the information presented in module 2. I would love to just be able to immediately say in this post what ethical frameworks and questions that I am looking at in terms of inquiry, but it seems like I am holding myself back. Every time I read the module 2 handbook, I find myself trying to understand with 'certainty' all of the information presented. I feel like this need to know things with certainty is a very dualistic approach to the material. Furthermore, I have become quite frustrated with myself in judgement, because I know this approach is holding me back. My frustration is not because I only see dance, knowledge, and the experience in the body in this dualistic way. My frustration comes in trying to work out how to take something that I have always approached (even without knowing it) from a non-positivist perspective and then articulate it in writing and research - tasks that I have always approached from a dualistic, positivist perspective.
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, all that being said, I am attempting to explore how these different frameworks will benefit me in my research. My inquiry, I believe, is somewhere around the idea of positive psychology movement and how much beliefs and mental/self talk affect - if at all - dance ability and/or execution in technique. Is there research out there to suggest the part positive mental attitudes has in dance? Is it linked scientifically with brain research? physiological research?
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