Friday, 9 September 2011

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?

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