Skype 17/4/18

Artefact: A creative way to share your journey of the inquiry. Should reflect the feel, nature and language of your practice. Represent and explore you as an artist.

The purpose is for the BA- don't develop this strand that it becomes something else!

Doesn't just show the findings.


Oral Presentation: Chance to talk about the inquiry- be able to speak and share what you have done.

Critical thinking point: asking yourself where and how do I want to use this information found from the inquiry in my practice and how will I implement it?

Finding themes

This week I have been analysing my data. As I have chosen to look at both mainstream and special educational needs schools I decided to compare the two in terms of findings from literature and interviews:

Some of the main themes that are occurring:

What actually is art?

What should constitute as art in education?

Art as a teaching methodology

Interdisciplinary- Cross curriculum approach

Innate creativity and imagination

Develop the "whole child"

Provide a Cultural Education

Gain art appreciation

What is art?

In the bid to take a break from studies today I went to the cinema to see the Greatest Showman (for a second time!). How wrong could I be that it would be a break and to help switch of from my inquiry. Instead the whole way through I kept relating, questioning, wondering in terms of my inquiry and practice.

One of my main findings within my inquiry is how it is hard to define/classify what art is and how it means something different everyone. In one of the final scenes the theatre critic says to PT Barnum he wouldn't class his show as art. I was surprised at this and made me question why. Ask yourself now how would you define art? what do you see as art? and why? what makes it art?  (oh and if you've seen the movie go see it!)

Jigsaw Puzzle

Many of us have mentioned the inquiry process is like a jigsaw puzzle... I have created the pieces and  now comes the time of piecing it all together. Although I admit I am struggling to stop finding & reading literature!

My first step is to display my findings from the lit, which felt like doing a jigsaw puzzle to get them all on the board!