Campus day 3 - BAPP course

Todays Campus session was very enlightening and there was plenty of discussion and debate.

The morning started off with Paula and Lizzy putting the question to us to start the debate and it was: What,. if any, relevance does performance arts have on society?

It started off with some of the students putting their views and opinions on this. We mentioned that everyone is easily influenced and of course it's relevant in todays society.

Leon one of the students suggested that actually he took the question and flipped it completely differently: he asked the question of what does relevance mean and what society??? He thought that maybe you could change the relevance to importance.

Which actually got us all reflecting on this question in a completely different way. The debate went on for an hour we actually picked this question and analysed it .

I put forward to the groups that in today's society at school that the higher rareky of school society don't consider Dance as a valued subject why? They want the students of today to part of this collaborative working environment and independent learners. I was suggesting that schools want to change BTEC to GCSE as it doesn't go towards the 5A* - C grades. I mentioned that it doesn't matter if the students wont be able to get the grades. My students at school are very much doers. They love to perform all different styles and that's what you get from the BTEC.

We discussed that you need to understand the question then develop it , mind map, refine the question.

We discussed how some society's consider dancers to be less intelligent to someone who is an English teacher for example Alan mentioned that this is a joke to think like this. How do we think as dancers is just as intelligent as someone that Teaches English for example to how we learn a dance we break it down, we learn it systematically then we look at technique to improve just like you would in the academic world. We as dances can develop questions like we develop dances. We break the dance down when we are cleaning it when we deconstruct a question we should do the same analyse the question and define it.


Paula mentioned when writing lines of Inquiry you should remember these points:

• Structure
• Articles
• Research
• Your Opinions
• Evidence of others people's opinions
• Open your mind
• Analyse it

We then split into groups of 4's where we took words that Paula gave us and started to think critically about them or Alan would say thinking critically. We discussed the words we wanted to use then we had to find out the meanings and define what the words mean to us and how we use them in this Performing Arts industry. We then had to film these to camera.

My group picked the words:

• Inter-subjectivity meaning- agreement of knowledge and communicating this with other people.
• we then looked at what Inter meant as it linked to the next word Inter means - Between or among Mutually agree.
• Interpretation- So we decided to look up what this word means we thought as a group we knew but considering what Inter means we re looked at the word. So interpretation means the explanation of a meaning and how you look and define it. So how does this link to INTER - we discussed that when everyone interprets something they do this all the same way its when you analyse this that you get a different outcome.  Bit like my students at school.
• Analysis- Provide evidence, dissect, the argument, breaking a subject down.
• Evaluation- When we evaluate this is a conclusion of the knowledge you have gained it's personal you own interpretation on your values or what you value as a person. I also ask my students to PEER asses evaluate which means that they have to give their opinion on someone else.

Below is my link to my flickr where I have added the pictures of Words definition task:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/104629886@N07/10980686506/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/104629886@N07/10980804803/

We then went into 2 groups where we discussed the Modules we were on. In my group Module 1 we discussed task 3 and Alan went into detail into some of the questions we had to ask.

I had to leave a little earlier so I didn't get all of the questions. My question was about the task 3C it was about the 5 sources it was a little bit of a silly question as I knew the answer.

A wise word I remember from today's and past campus sessions - You are not at school where you given information you are in a  professional practise degree where you are expected to go and find the questions create the answers. Reflect on your learning and how you are going to become a better practitioner of your subject.


I hope this helps if you wasn't at the campus session today.

Comment if you have any questions:

Geri