It was great to find a room full of people with the same worried looks on their face...
We did a few group exercises discussing our inquiry title, aims/objectives,ethical issues,our literature and data collecting tools. Vocally expressing the project helped many of us clarify issues that we were subconsciously ignoring..
Paula Nottingham re-inforced the importance of clearly planning out what, how and when we were going to complete the work on our inquiry in time spam we have.
I left the campus session feeling ready to finish my introduction as I had a better understanding on the consistency of our critical reviews.
In the two weeks I had before the next session I..
- Printed out a calender and worked out exactly when I was going to do what.. with lots of colours to keep me entertained!
- Booked and carried out all of my interviews with a variety of participants.
- Read my literature and wrote down lots of reviewing notations...
Trent park,Mansion, Cold room...19th October 2011
Feeling a little bit more on top of things but still full of queries..
We sat with Adesola in a circle to discuss the 'Professional Artefact' Part of our final dissertation. Here are some points I made during the seminar.
- It's about finding the best way to explain what we found out.
- An embodiment of our questions, follow the thread to NATURAL CONCLUSION.
- It's not an add on its part of the whole process
- There are different types of formats to present findings. Like,documents in the style of eg. Doing if your inquiry was about young education you could present your findings in a children's picture book.
Where as when spoke about the word formatted critical review.. it is the reportative form.
- It combines our experience with wisdom presenting cohesive arguments, critical thinking, comparing opinions and authorities.
What Next??!?!?
One of my main discussions with my advisor was how I couldn't really see the difference between the two segments of my critical review(evaluation of process and analysis of findings) it sounds obvious but! I was finding it hard to not write about my finding when evaluating my interviews etc. It turns out I had the wrong meaning of the word findings, the findings aren't just the data collected e.g my interviewees outcomes or literature reviews, because I found gaps in the knowledge from both sources. My analysis is why the gaps have occurred and how I can fill them.
Therefore before worrying about typing out my evaluation of my inquiry process I need to compare and contrast my findings in detail and take a critical approach to be clear of what I have discovered and learnt from the process.
Here I go.....
Hope this post has helped some people that couldn't make the campus sessions!?x
