Here are reflections from the campus session today:
Adesola asked us to write a poem entitled yesterday, it could include pictures or doodles if necessary. Once we had finished, we passed it round the circle and had to pick out key points that might tell us something about the persons interests or personality. This task was incredibly useful for me as I find reflective practice difficult and really helped me to find connections and things I am passionate about. It also helped me to identify how certain things affect me and how we affect certain things for example, the weather can have an effect on my mood.
Next, we looked at the inquiry in Module 2 and what sort of questions we should look at. This proved to be difficult as we always wanted to answer the question instead of thinking about how it directly affects us. I personally think the trap that I will fall into, will be picking a question that is too generic and general instead of picking one I wish to know more about.
A question that was raised was, "How can the arts be taken more seriously as a profession?" This is a question I have certainly asked myself many times, however it is too vast and not personal enough.
Adesola was asked a question by a module 3 student asking whether she should write her inquiry from a personal or "academic" point of view. We had a long discussion about this and explored pros and cons for both avenues. I feel that it should be written from a personal prospective as the course is about exploring you and your practice. Also, it is your opinion and by writing "academically" it may give the impression that everyone feels the same. We also talked about how using ‘I’ can be academic also.
This session really helped me to understand myself and how much I use reflective practice in my everyday life.
Read more from Zoe:
In our on campus session today, I begun realizing that the
main task for me personally is to find myself within my inquiry. Reflecting
upon it, some of the questions I thought about raising seem rather generic;
when Adesola asked me why I was raising them in the first place, it quickly
became apparent that perhaps I had to dig a little deeper.
Why do I feel a certain way about the topics I raised? Most
probably because they affect me personally.
Ultimately, I have to think less of projecting an idea ‘over
there’ and more of how to look for something ‘right here’ within myself.
Being faced with the aspect of ethics at the moment, I want
to think more about how I affect things and how I am affected by things;
knowing that I can only assume how I am affecting others, really.
Though ethics are being seen as quite a black or white kind
of thing, I agree with Adesola that perhaps they are more reflective and
therefor also personal.
Adesola mentioned Tina from Module 3 who was in two minds
about whether she wanted to write her inquiry from a personal perspective or
follow a more ‘academic’ approach by not doing so.
But why is it that we automatically divide between the me
and the academics? Aren’t we allowed to approach knowledge and see it through
our own eyes?
Do we think our own opinion might not sound as valid as it
would sound if we spoke about it in third person, like It didn’t really affect
us?
But no matter how hard I try to be objective, isn’t whatever
I write ultimately my own take?
I am now planning on writing my inquiry from my point of
view, reflecting my personal perspective on my own experience.
At this stage of my learning, I want to narrow it down to my
inquiry topic as soon as I can so that I can allow myself to go deeper within
the actual process of posing a question, or as we looked at it today, finding
out what I would like to explore more.
Read more from Irini
Today I had my first campus session, it was an incredibly nerve racking experience as I didn't know what to expect. We started by introducing ourselves, where we were in the course and raising any concerns that we had. I had a question about task 2D - inquiry, I wasn't sure which practice to write about, education or arts.
Adesola asked us to write a poem entitled yesterday, it could include pictures or doodles if necessary. Once we had finished, we passed it round the circle and had to pick out key points that might tell us something about the persons interests or personality. This task was incredibly useful for me as I find reflective practice difficult and really helped me to find connections and things I am passionate about. It also helped me to identify how certain things affect me and how we affect certain things for example, the weather can have an effect on my mood.
Next, we looked at the inquiry in Module 2 and what sort of questions we should look at. This proved to be difficult as we always wanted to answer the question instead of thinking about how it directly affects us. I personally think the trap that I will fall into, will be picking a question that is too generic and general instead of picking one I wish to know more about.
A question that was raised was, "How can the arts be taken more seriously as a profession?" This is a question I have certainly asked myself many times, however it is too vast and not personal enough.
Adesola was asked a question by a module 3 student asking whether she should write her inquiry from a personal or "academic" point of view. We had a long discussion about this and explored pros and cons for both avenues. I feel that it should be written from a personal prospective as the course is about exploring you and your practice. Also, it is your opinion and by writing "academically" it may give the impression that everyone feels the same. We also talked about how using ‘I’ can be academic also.
This session really helped me to understand myself and how much I use reflective practice in my everyday life.
Read more from Zoe:
What do you feel, see, hear about this?
Please comment
Adesola
I am interested in the discussion Irini mentions - which style to write your inquiry in?
ReplyDeleteI hadn't really thought about it until now. I think I had assumed that it must be academic style write because we are doing a degree. We should have to have it written well but is what she's saying that we are able to make it more personal? As you have said Adesola I hope that my inquiry will turn out to be something that will help my practise and so then it will be personal.