BAPP Arts Module 3 WBS3760 Campus Session 1

(to be continued online)

10th October 2014

Paula Nottingham

Ideas for the session…

Three points to get out of the session

An idea about what you need to do in terms of planning, and analysis

An idea about what a professional inquiry is about

An idea of how to plan Module 3 work

What is an inquiry?

Professional Inquiry 7a

What is your definition of a Professional Inquiry?

Spend 3 minutes thinking up and jotting key words of your

own definition. You might use a picture to help you do this (in the campus session there are some images on hand).

I think that a professional inquiry is…

explain your definition…

Note: the reportage style of communicates with explanation and examples.

Paula’s attempt at a definition in words…

The professional inquiry is a learning approach that develops knowledge and understanding about an arts-related area of practice that is contextualised by your experience.

The inquiry uses steps and stages to allow inquiry questions to evolve responses or solutions & develop valuable expertise in particular subject areas. It informs your thinking using your experience, appropriate literature and data from practitioner research; the process allows you to think about the meaning of what you do.

The critical review explains what you have done in more formal terms. The professional artefact demonstrates that you can communicate your new knowledge within your professional setting.

The inquiry involves professional and personal dimensions that are reflexive. There is a progression in the ability to think through issues and problems using analysis and interpretation, academic argument (convincing someone of your point of view using evidence) and critical reflection.

Paula’s explanation in pictures…

The 3 parts of the final assessment for WBS3760

Part 1: The Critical Review primarily written but can contain visual or audio visual elements showing the process of investigating a topic (practitioner research) with analysis that has implications for your practice

Part 2: The Professional Artefacta product or a work in progress that is created - it can be a document, an event, or an activity - it can be something that informs others in your community of practice or workplace - the artefact should emerge from the inquiry

Part 3: The Oral Presentation (submitted later) an in person/ audio-visual demonstration that shows that you have progressed in your ability to show knowledge and understanding that is based on your ‘inquiry’

Professional Inquiry process

A process of preparation, scheduling, doing, evaluating, putting back into practice, and reflecting on the process with others in mind…

http://www.london2012.com/news/articles/double-gold-delight-for-farah.html

Drafting and editing

Structure your thinking

Cross the finishing line!

Make your points

Explain your thinking

Professional Inquiry stages and steps – from the Handbook

Formative Feedback

Week 1: Task for 7a

After looking at your adviser feedback from Module 2 - students send a 1 page summary to your adviser with your inquiry title, your research/inquiry questions and ideas, ethical issues, literature review up to this point, changes to your plan, ideas for your artefact, and any questions or issues that might have arisen for the module after reading the Module 3 Handbook.

To review your plan for your professional inquiry - look at feedback from your Module 2 plan and

discuss with your adviser and peers

1st Group Exercise(use the oral process to develop your thinking)

Reviewing your plan… talk with someone over Skype or phone to pinpoint what you need to do… tell this to your partner and they write it down for you…

Where are you now? Use KEY WORDS

Discuss with the others in your group:

1) Your topic area & inquiry questions

2) Ethical issues that are involved in the inquiry

3) What you have done so far in terms of researching literature

4) What you have done so far in terms of gathering data

5) Have your partner write this down for you and give/send it to you – it is a great way to get started and to clarify what your are doing.

Action:Action:Action:

Updating your planning… write down action points.

Using the earlier discussion, spend some time clarifying what you need to do, and establish some action points that can be discussed with your adviser (write them down).

LOOK AT BAPPMDX YouTube http://youtu.be/nYQ08zKIf2Q for some exemplar questions and answers…

2nd Group Exercise (develop your own action points)

2nd Group Exercise (develop your own action points)

Action:

I need to review my literature and complete this by adding sources that will inform my analysis of my topic – maybe that have academic arguments that are not in agreement with each other

Action: I need to send my information sheet to my participants and schedule my interviews

Action: I need to do my interviews

Action: I need to get permission from the Gatekeeper at my workplace

Action: I need to transcribe quotes that I intend to use as evidence

Action: I need to talk to others on the course about my inquiry – on the blogs of Skype

How do you carry out a literature review?

The literature review for the inquiry is more comprehensive than Module 2 - which showed you how to find and review individual pieces of literature – look at Reader 7.

Start to accumulate sources that will inform your thinking. Use the Middlesex library (under the MyUniHub) to help you find academic sources as well as Google and Google Scholar (books, audiovisual, audio sources).

Use key words to look up sources using the Summon tab and look at the advice on the Libguides. Refer to Paula’s blog about searching for love http://paulanottingham.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/campus-session-1-continued-what-we-did.html

How do you carry out a literature review?

Jo and Ahmet and Paula suggest criteria:

1. Relevance2. Time and place written (currency)3. Level and expertise

Remember digital resources are available under the Reading Lists tab on Libguide http://readinglists.mdx.ac.uk/index.html

Your literature should come from the areas that you are finding out about for your research and work-based activities and should show the expertise in the various fields (disciplinary) or workplace (transdisciplinary) where you are focusing your inquiry.

Continue to blog as a way of communication with the BAPP (Arts) network/SIGs

Communicate with your adviser in a meaningful way – use the formative feedback throughout the study period

Begin the drafting process by verbally explaining your inquiry and using the update to start the writing process

Advice for the next few weeks

Dates for submitting this semester

Submission for the Critical Review and Professional Artefact by 8th Jan 2015 on your WBS3760 on the university MyUniHub site (or sent to BAPP@mdx.ac.uk).

Audio- visual artefacts need to be under 500 mb to submit to MyLearning – or we can do WeTransfer or send them recorded post (recorded post ONLY!!)

The Oral Presentations will be have been scheduled for the 20th and 21st January 2015 with morning and/or afternoon sessions to be attended by advisers and BAPP (Arts) peers

If completing the module is not possible this term, you need to discuss this with your academic adviser so that they can help you decide on the best course of action.

Points to take away from this session

A good sense of analysis and how to use others to enhance critical thinking.

A good sense of direction for what you need

A good sense of to do and the feeling that the job is achievable.

Next campus sessions…

More on writing up the Critical Review

More on the Professional Artefact

More on working with others about your ideas

*Thanks to the BAPP Arts learners at the 10/10/14 for the feedback on the slides!!