Feedback and Proceeding Forward
I would like
to share my feedback and thoughts after completing Module Two last term.
Firstly, my inquiry is based on my teaching of student teachers participating
on a 1-year pedagogy course here in Norway.
My feedback
was extremely helpful and has led me to reflect further. I seem to forget at
times that this course is about my practice
and I need to keep that in the forefront continuing into Module Three. I have
experienced that I get involved in the “academics” of the course (e.g. composing
a literature list, how to write a proposal plan), that I forget the whole
reason why I am enrolled on the course! I am still a bit reluctant to discover why
I have the perspectives I have, but I know that to proceed, I need to question
myself. I have never previously reflected on why I have the views I do. Are they really my views or was a seed
planted and I’ve never had the need to think about them or reconsider them?
Receiving
feedback about my literature review had me contemplating about what have I
learnt in the past 30 something years I’ve been teaching. Without a doubt, my practice has been traditional
(in relationship to the culture I live and work in), and I have been, to a
certain degree blind to developments within the dance world. I have been
recommended to extend my reading as I tend to separate body and mind in learning.
The theory of Dualism was something
new to me and I have been advised to look into literature (i.e. Dewey) that
bridges the dualist tradition. I too, need to expand my knowledge about
teaching and learning that are not so obvious to me. Claxton and Atkinsons’
book The Intuitive
Practitioner: On the Value of Not Always Knowing What One Is Doing has
been recommended.
It was
pointed out that I need to employ in a stronger engagement with the Skype
discussions and blogs and this is a valid point. I find these modes of learning
quite challenging. I do understand the value of these learning methods, and I
am determined to be an active participant in the coming months. Overcoming
certain obstacles in the Skype talks, (that may give the impression I am more of a listener than a
contributor), is an element that I wish to improve.
Samantha