Okay so I have been chatting with Alan again and he did bring an interesting question to me...will boys an teachers attitudes perhaps be to broad to focus on? what are the advantages of the bredth and what might the benifit be of a more tightly focussed aim? he suggested perhap just focussing on teacjer views and going for greater depth.

This got me thinking, it is right that I could get a much more indepth research for focussing on just one aspect, however I have found some really interesting litreture on boys attitudes as well as teachers and I do think that boh are importan aspects in conquering this issue. Terefore I am currently trying to think of a way to inlude both, but still keep my research focussed. I could focus in on the gaps and overlaps sort of like a cmpare and contrast type research, as suggested by Alan.

It is important for me to decide soon so that I can get my questionnaires more focussed to the research aim.

Any thoughts let me know"!

Clearer Mind!

So I have had a second chat with Alan and have discussed so many different things that were on my mind which is great. I have had some thoughts on my professional artefact in terms of who it would be for and what would be the best type of artefact to go for. I am thinking along the lines of a leaflet or brochure that I can present to headteachers of the school. If i went down this route, as my dad is a headteacher hmself, i am aware that they are very busy people that simply havent got time to read through lots and lots of writing about everything they get sent. Therfoe I need my leaflet to be soemthing which stands out from the crowd and that has perhaps a link to a pdf file on line with more information should the reader wish to find out more! This artefact could help me in the future to secure more work. I need to come up 3 or 4 key issues which i want the artefact to display and then 3 o 4 ways to overcome this .

I feel much clearer after speaking to alan and making notes. Today I have been attemptimg my Litreture review which is causing me headaches! I have gathered some really interested litreture over the last few months however writing it all down and gettin it to flow is where I am struggling.

Overall I am trying to be more organised this time round and keep one step ahead ll the time i hope this will mean that as my professional workload increases as well as my uni workload I will be well prepared for this.

Out with the old in with the new!!!

Hello! So I couldnt keep up with the workload last year and now I am back and raring to go. After taking such a long break I do feel quite lost about the whole thing however I decided a good place to start would be to read back ovr my previous assignment. This helped me a lot and all the memorys came flooding back! I have spent a useful few hours getting some thoughts down on paper so originally my project title was going to be " a research into the efective strategies for intergrating boys of presecondary age into dance"... however i realised that it was too big a task!
therefore working title is now "exploring the issues: boys participation and attitudes to dance within primary schools"

Key objecives: main objective of the project will be to help me gain an understanding of boys attitudes and teachers attitudes to teaching boys to possibly help come up with stratergys in the future. I will need to write questionaires in order to gain data and also gain data by observation and reading up on literiture to enable me to analyze my findings and write a report.

research methods and tools: i will take a case study approach to this research but will use elements of survey and observational research to aid my case study. as i am already working in many schools i believe case study will be the best approach for me as it is comprises of many different methods. i will use qualatatuve and quantataive resarch to enable me both a wide and indepth insight into the issues. I think this coupled with my own research and observations will provide me with the basis of a well rounded project.
research tools...i am stil not 100% sure about this!!! tools i will use are questionnaires which i will write and interviews which i will write. i will use my dictaphone to aid me with the interviews. I will present the findings by producing some sort of chart but havent decided what kind yet! I will also use coding to help me with my interview findings. I will also use the internet and librarys as research tools a well as an observational diary.

I have some questions here for anyone that knows the answer to respond please!!
1. Do we need to rerite litreture review in our essay or do we post the review on our blogs andrefer to it within the final "essay".

2. Professional artefact....I am confused as to what this is, could it be for instance a power point presentation of our findings?