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.

Thinking about ethics - something I wrote for the BAPPs and a great video.

Ethics as we have discussed it - in terms of how you might be experienced by those around you, how your inquiry might be experienced by those around you. It seems ironic to say it’s not just a tick-box activity when the form is actually a tick-box form!!!! but …You need to make sure the form clearly explains what you will be doing and why it is necessary to involve the people you want to involve. As well as how your inquiry might impact on them and their identity and relationship with you. - (Think about: it if you have a teacher/student relationship their identity is ‘student’ that is how they see themselves when with you so however much you feel the inquiry is different from your usual relationship they are 'student' with you and asking someone not to see themselves in that way is asking them to make the effort of changing their identity just so you can do your inquiry).

Here is a link to a great Ted video to get you thinking also - as Dave Isay suggests when we are doing what we are doing we may also be impacting on others in an important way that is much bigger than we could have dreamt of 

Below the video should be embedded but here is the address if it doesn’t work below!!

http://www.ted.com/talks/dave_isay_everyone_around_you_has_a_story_the_world_needs_to_hear

PM session Group Skype chat

The afternoon skype session went well.

We talked about the difference between looking for a research ‘topic’ and designing a research inquiry. Whereas the topic is important it is not the topic itself that makes a ‘good’ research project. As always it is what you do (with it) that makes something what it is. So although the topic is important allowing yourself to create something/design something as the process of Module Two is where the activity/learning/growth is involved.

We talked about ideas for research topics and people shared things they had been thinking about

We talked about where to look for literature – again remembering it is not about accumulating literature but it is about what you do with the literature. Books are not answers but go to inform you and help you construct your ideas.

We talked about the worth of Module One and why it is a good idea not to rush it. The AOLs are important as a way of gathering yourself and remembering who you are and what you’ve achieved as well as being important as the foundation for the next two modules.

Maria R. is going to post on the discussion about research inquiry and how it is not necessarily about asking a question and looking for an answer but  about asking a question and get to understand the question better or becoming able to ask a better question.

http://mariaranden.blogspot.no

Ainsley and Sarah S. will post further on the planning an inquiry conversation we had.

http://ainsleymsudds.blogspot.ca

http://sarahsulemanji.blogspot.co.uk

Tamzin will post on keeping going on Module One and taking one AOL at a time!

http://tamzinhoward.blogspot.co.uk

What do you think of these points
Adesola