After our Skype session a few days ago I've had abit of time to think about my professional inquiry and what kind of topic I'm really interested in. In the Skype i mentioned that i have previously taught some baby ballet and tap classes ages 3-5, this came into my head straight away when we spoke about it has to be something that we are really interested in else we will not want to fully commit to it. I am intrigued into the minds of children in dance especially the ages of the classes i have taught, this for me could be a potential inquiry idea but it was mentioned that it its always advised to do topics around children unless you are fully working in a school environment, which for me is not the case at the moment. I do have my DBS check but i have not as of yet worked in a school with young children. I am really interested in working with children with behaviour problems or special needs this is something that i have looked into.i then thought to myself what is something that i could really get stuck into and really find out a lot about backed up with evidence? I know my avenue of choice is going towards teaching at the moment but as someone mentioned in the Skype session a previous student was training to be a teacher but because they picked a professional enquiry to do with the industry it really got them back into wanting to audition and be apart of that world again. Is that potentially an option for me? maybe it is, maybe that is the push i need to get the passion back for wanting to perform myself instead of teaching.
As it stands at the moment my professional enquiry is a bit up in the air with a lot of thoughts flying round my head but to narrow it down a bit i have made of list of topics of interest and from this list i will consider which will be the best topic for me, so far i have:
How does dance develop children in the early years?
Does performing arts help people with disablilties?
How serious is performing arts taken in a school environment?
These a just a vague first few ideas that i have if anyone knows how i could expand any of these thoughts i would love to hear from you!
Im looking for a SIG group to join or for anyone to join me who is also interested in doing their professional inquiry around teaching or a school based environment please comment if you are going down the same route as me :)
I am doing my lines of enquiry around teaching so we could form a SIG group to explore ideas :)
ReplyDeleteI am doing my lines of enquiry around teaching so we could form a SIG group to explore ideas :)
ReplyDeleteHi Amelia! You already know that I want to base my ideas around inquiry's for performing arts and children or school based... Eleanor has set up a sig for that which is a great one to join! I will also be setting one up on similar lines so you are welcome to join that!! Same goes for you Lydia :)
ReplyDeletesounds great guys! lets get this started
DeleteYes good for SIG opportunities - remember the mainframe of knowledge in disciplinary studies sometimes there are course that are 'prerequisites' - so core knowledge first - so in teaching think about some main foundation literature (is it arts teaching - or mainstream) and then thinking about how these ideas are related to more specialised areas e.g. early years - etc. - the ethics will mean that you will be looking at practice but often not 'on or with ' children - which the uni considers higher risk - in saying that - the knowledge and research form these various areas are extremely interesting and beneficial - start looking up the literature! look up education on the LibGuides - MDX has an early years programme so good literature in that area
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