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!

Why music?

My inquiry is looking into how the arts manifest in education at primary level.

Findings show: drama is part of Literacy, dance is part of PE and music stands alone as a foundation subject. This has got me question why?

Why does music get its own subject specific lesson in comparison to other art forms? what benefits does music offer that the others don't? Should art subjects be categorised differently?

In a bid to help expand my thinking on this I have outsourced this piece literature:

The importance of music: A national plan for music education

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/180973/DFE-00086-2011.pdf

If anyone has any thoughts on this topic please comment.

Multiple perspectives

Tonights group discussion gave the opportunity to discuss ideas and make connections. The mix of modules gave the opportunity to refresh prior learning (journals, developing lines of inquiry) it helped to share experiences and make links between modules and reminded me to trust in the process of learning. Alongside the notion of 'discussion' and how using others helps to aid discussion, gain multiple perspectives, give alternative views, expand thinking, open further discussion points and ideas. Module 3 students have been questioning on should you actively seek literature on an 'opposing argument' instead of opposing we should view this as 'alternative'. In doing so this should allow you to view the topic from a different perspective to get a better understanding. Using multiple perspectives helps create a deeper understanding.