I have now realised that the inquiry I aimed to focus on seems a little too broad and I need to narrow it down to a specific area to make the practice-based inquiry in Module 3 more manageable. Although I am not required to know exactly what that is yet, I will begin to get ideas from other practitioners and the BAPP community and then determine what I already know and what I feel curious about.
It was great to hear everybody's ideas on what they feel their inquiry shall be focused on and it was interesting that everybody had different curiosities and paths they intend to follow. That is what is great about this course, we are all given the same information and guidance but it's how we used the information and adapt the knowledge to our personal fields.
I think it will be more important for this module to engage with others and keeping a reflective journal about what I discover around me and my feelings and questions. Whilst gathering data and information from all areas of literature, not just from reading books but also from articles, TedTalks, and artwork.
Helen described it as an adventure, our question is the starting point, we are then exploring to find out other things and gaining more knowledge. We are not supposed to be answering the question, we are just setting ourselves up to go and explore but understanding how I am going to go about exploring this area. This will be involving different research methods including surveys, observations, or a case study of a particular community. Although we don't need to do all of these methods, just one or two.
Ethics will be a big part of this inquiry project but I am not going to think too much into that at the moment as there will be a dedicated session to get a clearer understanding of this.
A really useful summary of what we discussed, thank you! I agree, hearing such a range of interests was really inspiring and helped me understand what the course is trying to help us achieve too.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Sally, this is a really helpful summary! I couldn't make the call itself but when listening to the recording I really appreciated hearing everyone else's initial thoughts. It'll be interesting to see what direction you end up going in!
ReplyDeleteBecca x
This was really helpful and useful to read, especially as I am reading this a few weeks after the session, a great refresh so thank you.
ReplyDeleteI agree that creating a reflective journal will be a great resource to use! I am going to be mindful of this and noting down my feelings and questions more.
Ellie