Skype Chat

Ive just had a Skype with Helen going through my feedback form and discussing where to go next with my inquiry. It was very insightful after feeling that my inquiry had hit a stand still it just shows that talking about it vocally can really be helpful. After speaking quite passionately about my new job and what I have been observing the past 7 weeks has made me realise that the lens I'm observing through on a daily basis is the key to my inquiry. I did not see it before but Helen has made me realise that my own observations are shifting my ideas for my proposal and its okay for my ideas to shift and change at this stage. Helen said talking to me on Skype about what my proposal is to me and where i want it to go is a lot more exciting than what i currently have on paper. The lens I'm analysing is behaviours and social skills with is a performers lens, Im interested to find out if other members of staff at my school see it the same as me or not. I also need to reconsider  my ethics as I work in a school so i already have permission to be there but it would be good for my research to be able to make a focus group at school and to not ask them any questions but to get them to choose which activity they would prefer to do and analyse why they chose certain ones. I would be able to start with year 1 and go up to year 6 to be able to study the differences in behaviour. Using my own journal i will look at a different idea each week so for example one week ill look at who is most vocal in class and the next week ill look at who moves around the most confidently i.e who wants to be the leader in a line up to the hall. With regards to my data collection Helen has told me that I do not need to try to include everything and spread myself to thinly that if i pick one or two and really focus and go in-depth with those it will be much more effective. With my literature I am going to focus on finding more sociology articles and research as it is more helpful with the road I am going down. I am so glad I had a Skype with Helen as it has got me excited again to research into something that Im truly interested in and has made me realise the path I want to go down and how to narrow it down to specifics instead of keeping it to vague and more work for myself. I feel I am heading in the right direction to get stuck in!  :)