SIP Workshop 1 on the PGCert programme
Yesterday I attended the SIP workshop which was a day long seminar introducing methods for research and this unit brief.
I hadn’t yet identified my research question, but there were lots of activities to work through ideas as well as advice about how to choose a topic that is doable in the time frame.
From doing the prep reading I’m beginning to realise that learning about this area is helping me come closer to processing and refining my ideas. As in the way I teach ideas generation for art and design projects, action starts the process off, to get the creative juices flowing where ideas follow activity.
Research of this kind is something that is new to me, I’ve already learnt a lot, for example I’d not encountered action research at all and what it means. I heard about some of the methods but did not think of them in terms of the benefits and disadvantages and the theories that form a wider context.
I have been going back and forth between a couple of different questions to work on. It was good to be able to talk to other students and get the sense that a lot of people are at the same point and need to refine their initial questions and ideas before properly getting started.
The questions that I worked on were:
Rochelle question(s): How can I be more sustainable with my practice and maintain a rich playground for creativity and ideas generation.
How does our engagment with the physical affect our learning, either online or in the physical classroom/ the psychogeography of learning.
This morning another popped into my mind about how we experience coming back to the physical classroom after a year and a half of learning and teaching online. I think this one might be useful to reflect on, but also it is something that is happening to us this term and would be current in everyones minds and experience.