On Sunday we had our first ‘first Sunday of the month’ skype
chats of the term!!!
The AM chat was a
little lonely – we want to encourage some more people in morning chats to talk
to those whose time zone doesn’t permit the evening one. We also talked about
commenting on blogs and getting the Linked-in discussion group moving. All
these modes of discussion are important to the learning community you are
joining when you are in MAPP. Blog posts and blog comments don’t have to be
long to still share ideas and give valuable feedback / insights. It seems to be
something a few people are feeling i.e. keep up the communication with each
other.
In the PM chat we
had more people and we talked about:
The idea of starting back, picking up ideas and observing
our own changes and development in terms of how our work progresses and changes
through the journey of the whole course. Learning and teaching is a transformative
experience. We talked about how this means things are changing all the time (we
hope – we are transforming). A tension is created when you have a hard fast
goal to achieve (find out X) using a process (transformative learning) that is designed to be fluid and
responsive. We can often shut down openness to the uncomfortable feeling of
Flux that fluidity can induce for the safety of achieving X. While preferably (and
what I think the uncomfortable feeling is letting you know is that) X is
changing. Of course X changes because we are understanding it differently/more
with each engagement we have, each experience we have with X. We talked about
this in terms of ‘colonizing ideas’ – that patriarchal need to identify,
measure and pin-down ‘things’ (that I encourage us to recognize and resist!) We
are working with/through movement. Helen talked about seeing study as opening
doors.
Ainsely and Louise are going to post about jumping back into
study/ the modules
http://ainsleymsudds.blogspot.com
http://louisedubai.blogspot.com
Tara is going to post on the uncomfortable feeling of feeling.
http://dancetara.blogspot.com
We talked about why dance was done by people who do not
intend to work as professionals in the dance field. We suggested there were a
number of ‘transferable skills’ dance offers, and that dance is a natural expression
of Self for anyone.
Joy is posting on thoughts about how dance manifests in people’s lives (Joy please post your blog adrress in the comments below)
We talked a little about the ethics of representation. This is particularly interesting in terms
of transcribing. For us working with the knowledge of the notion of Embodiment
we are constantly asking ourselves how can you genuinely capture the lived
experience. The experience of talking to someone is so much more than their
words and then the words themselves are expressing more ideas and feelings that
are often limited if only verbal language is used. So how do we choose to
transcribe interviews. There is not a ‘solution’ to this. What makes it ‘right’
is not that it is universally a right
way to transcribe. What makes it ‘right’ is that what you do fits with the philosophical
and methodological framework you have created for your research. In other words
what makes it ‘the right way to transcribe’ is that it makes sense in terms of
what you are doing and how you are doing it.
Tamzin is going to write about transcribing
http://tamzinhoward.blogspot.com
Hayley is posting on the conversation overall. (Hayley please post your blog address in the comments below)
Louise talked about how her additional reading on method and
methodology has helped her when she feels stuck because she can think about
some of the ideas other people have had and notice if and when they happen in
her experience. For instance, “thinking about constructing an argument Louise
might now be listening to the radio and think that argument is being
constructed through…” or “that is not an argument it’s a statement… “Or “we
want to get away from arguments and look at how what they are saying would be
affected through the lens of discussion and collaboration”.
We talked practicals:
Feedback will be sent in the next couple of weeks.
Submitting date for this coming term is May 9th 2016
Oral presentations by Module Three’s (everyone is encouraged
to attend) end of that same week.
Summer Intensive (Dancing & Writing Professional
Practice) is August 15th to 20th
2016.
Early Registration for the Summer Intensive will be open
from February 22nd 2016
What have you been thinking about these last few weeks?
Please comment below.
Adesola
