1. BAPP Arts Module 3 WBS3760 Online Session 1 24/2/17
Talking about the final module - the professional inquiry.
Paula Nottingham Skype paulanottingham 24/2/17
2. Three points to get out of the session
Identifying
the goals
for your
professional
inquiry
Proceeding
with your
inquiry after
feedback
Practitioner
research
and
permissions
3. Ideas for the session…
Questions or
points that
you need
covered in
the session?
4. Which picture represents where you are
now?
Do you have your own picture – audio or
audio-visual example to think about where
you are right now?
http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/love-sex/relationships/a45206/dating-with-anxiety-disorder/
http://www.flowershopnetwork.com/flower-pictures/ao042615/supremely-lovely-floral-arrangement/
http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/exhibitions/sonia-delaunay-tate-modern-exhibition-review-pioneer-of-abstract-art-supremely-relevant-to-our-time-10175365.html
http://www.hamiltonthemusical.co.uk
http://www.terrygillen.co.uk/books/quietly-confident/
https://www.mindmeister.com/blog/2013/09/17/the-students-guide-to-mind-mapping/
5. The BAPP Arts arrow designed by Paula Nottingham and Rosemary McGuinness
6. (Please also refer to the Handbook)
Submission has 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
4 main sections as headings… look at Handbook – you can change titles but
work with these sections
Part 2: The Professional Artefact
a 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’
(within assessments) LAST BUT NOT LEAST - your blogs, workplace evidence
and networking, and peer/SIG conversations
The main parts of the final assessment of the professional Module 3 WBS3760
7. Formative Feedback
Week 1: Task for 7a
After looking at your adviser feedback from Module 2 -
students send a 1 page summary to your tutor/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 professional inquiry –
look at feedback from your Module 2 plan
and discuss with your tutor and peers
8. How would you describe your Professional Inquiry?
Spend 3 minutes thinking up and jotting key words of your
own definition. You might use picture to help you do this
(in the campus session there are some images on hand on the next
slide).
I think my professional inquiry is
about…
What does it mean after reading the Handbook and Reader 7?
Is there a generic version and a way that you would explain your own inquiry?
9. Paula’s attempt at a definition in words…
The professional inquiry develops knowledge and understanding about
an arts-related area of practice that is contextualised by your
experience.
The inquiry questions bring out your understanding (you
do not have to find ‘answers’) and 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 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.
11. Exercise 1- talk to someone 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?
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.
12. Action:
Action:
Action:
After your update – revisit your planning and 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…
Exercise 2 – use your update to do
your own action points
13. Examples…
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
Action:
I need to
talk to my
tutor
14. CHANGES – if you have anyone involved under 18 years of age you need
parents permission (contact you tutor if you need additional guidance). This
changed this term – it was under 16.
Follow the process form your Ethics Release Form agreed with your tutor –
and any additional conditions sent by the university. Your tutor will work closely with
your to monitor your ethics. Keep in touch with them. They are there to help/.
Use the BAPP Arts informed consent form provided. There is also the
information sheet template and template for asking parents permissions (you
will have to adapt to your situation – ask you tutor)
You can check your invitation to participant and information sheet (sometimes
sent as an email or posted online) used to invite and inform participants before the
practitioner research with your tutor before you send these out (if you have any
questions).
Put your informed consent forms and any additional Employer/Professional
forms in your appendices when you submit…
Ethical considerations ongoing in your inquiry
15. Literature and Research Literature
It is now time to be looking for more literature about your topic to
find expertise and ideas to inform your thinking.
Within the library on MyUnihub you can use Summon, the Library
Guides, go directly to ebooks and journals. Remember that
Sconol http://www.sconul.ac.uk
You have a Reading list on the My Learning WBS3760 site and
the library for what we call research literature – so books etc. that
talk about how to do the practitioner research e.g Bell, Costley et al.
Blaxter Huges and Tight, Fox et al., Gray etc.
Remember you can use Cite Them Right
http://www.citethemrightonline.com
for Harvard referencing – we also have guides. Take care to cite
your sources.
16. Research
literature for the
practitioner
inquiry tools
Arts (performance,
dance, acting, visual)
Creative industries
cultural
Trans-disciplinarity
Workplace
Professional practice
e.g. career transition
What areas of knowledge do we use for
BAPP Arts? You have your own for M3.
Society
Gender
Business
communicatio
n
17. Reviewing the
Ideas/Literature
The review of ‘literature’ 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.
Continue to accumulate sources that will inform your thinking
throughout the inquiry – discuss with your tutor and peers.
• Use the Middlesex library Summon tab (under the MyUniHub) to
help you find academic sources as well as Google and Google
Scholar (books, audiovisual, audio sources).
• Contact Laura or Michelle – our Librarians YOU HAVE THEIR
EMAILS
• Look at the Dinner Party on Paula’s blog…
http://paulanottingham.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/the-dinner-
party-literature-for-your.html
18. How do you review literature?
There is information about reviewing literature in Reader 7 – it will become
summarised in your Critical Review but you can also do a fuller review and put
into your appendices.
ADD TO THIS ADVICE TODAY
Things to consider:
1. Relevance
2. Time and place written (currency)
3. Level and expertise (from earlier discussion with Jo and Ahmet)
Remember resources are available under the Reading List
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.
19. Continue to blog as a way of
communication with the BAPP Arts
network/SIGs your peer groups
Communicate with your tutor in a meaningful
way and use the formative feedback
throughout the study period
Begin carry out your action plan and write about the main
ideas that will inform your work by verbally explaining your
inquiry and using the tutor update to start the writing process
Advice for the next few weeks
We can plan a group session with Alexandra Pitt (Alex)
about writing – Paula will put a blog to sign up for this
20. Campus Session 1
Timeline illustration
Session 1 Session 2 Session 3Session 1
And/or talk
with your
tutor able
emerging
findings This might be after Session 3
--------- Keep blogging and journal evidence form your workplace --------
21. A good sense
of direction
for what the
inquiry is
about in
Module 3
A good sense
of to do and
the feeling
that the job is
achievable.
A good sense
of what you
need to do for
the ethical
procedures
based on
your form.
Points to take away from this session
22. Dates for submitting this semester
Submission for the Critical Review and Professional Artefact
By 12th May 2017 (11:55pm online) on you’re My Learning module
site.
Audio- visual artefacts need to be under 500 mb to submit to
MyLearning – or we can do WeTransfer.
The Oral Presentations will be have been scheduled for the 18th and 19th
of May 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 tutor so that they can help you decide on the best course of action.
23. Q & A ?
Can you use
YouTube videos
as literature?
yes – cite these
sources like any
other
How many
sources do we
need?
approximately 10-
20 but each
inquiry is different
so think quality as
well as quantity
If I am doing Skype interviews –
are signed consent forms
required? - If you can get your
participants to scan their signature
on the BAPP Arts consent form you
send them – submit that – if that is
not possible make sure you get the
same sort of permission using a
digital signature clearly identified
within an email – the university just
wants to make sure you have
informed consent and that is your
evidence of that process – speak to
your tutor if you have questions
about this – you will be submitting
this evidence as an appendix to
your inquiry
What do I do if things change? Some
aspects of the inquiry might be ‘fuzzy’ in
the beginning – so keep talking to your
tutor if things change and you need to
re-plan
Do I have to check
my interview
question with my
tutor? Not
necessarily - it
should have
indicated that in
your feedback – but
you can check with
your tutor anyway if
that is helpful for
interview questions
– they should be
related to your
inquiry questions
