Joe Kennedy Dance

I have been conducting my interviews this week for my final inquiry looking at how different teachers approach the idea of creating an environment that promotes students developing the ability to ultimately be autonomous. It's been really interesting seeing the conflict that we all have, particularly in vocational training, between promoting student-lead ideas and using the more direct, disciplined and authoritarian approach to dance teaching that most of us have been familiar with at some point. It's been interesting seeing the clash between the idea that we are seeking technical mastery in our students (which lends itself to repetition and drilling of work), while at the same time wanting to inspire them to be creative and be able to work things out on their own to give them the tools to be successful once they leave our studio. In speaking to my interviewees, the ideas of fear (of a teacher or being wrong), the modern education system and how our own training backgrounds a

Just finished the welcome back Skype and while I'm feeling ready to through myself into my research project, I'm feeling, as always, a little overwhelmed by everything that I need to do alongside my work and life balance. What I took from the Skype was something Helen said about working out how I can fit the inquiry into my job as opposed to around it and this is definitely something I need to work on finding with this final module.