Gather Reflection

Gathering Data: Changes There were a number of changes from the original action plan. Below I detail what they were, why they happened. Changes   Why? Successful? Unsuccessful? Issues? Didn’t record meetings using an audio recorder or teams, instead kept a text and visual diary   Ethical and Practical Reasons. This became hard to do… Continue reading Gather Reflection

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Ethics Email

Ethics Email This is the email I sent to people I was in meetings with during the focus week. __________________________________________________________________ Hi all! I have been conducting an action research project as part of my PGcert focused on meeting and gathering amongst colleagues. In the first stage, I am analysing through text and image, a combination… Continue reading Ethics Email

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Ethics Form 2

PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication Self-initiated Project Ethical Enquiry Form Participant name: Miriam Elgon Cohort: A Tutor name: Catherine Smith/John O’Reilly Please describe your research question (or focus of your research):   Can I meet with my colleagues in a more intentional way?   When I use  ‘intention’ I mean it as… Continue reading Ethics Form 2

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Ethics Feedback Response

Can you in a sentence describe ‘intentional’. And in a couple of sentences preamble, what is your ‘concern’ (in the language of AR). Yes, done. When I use  ‘intention’ I mean it as ‘deliberate’ (Collins, 2022) and also to have a greater consciousness to and knowledge of the experience and activity of meeting. In terms… Continue reading Ethics Feedback Response

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Ethics Form 1

PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication Self-initiated Project Ethical Enquiry Form Participant name: Miriam Elgon Cohort: A Tutor name: Catherine Smith/John O’Reilly Please describe your research question (or focus of your research):   Can I meet with my colleagues in a more intentional way?   Who will be providing you with information to… Continue reading Ethics Form 1

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Design Reflection

Choosing experience-based and arts-based methods My use of these methods fits into a larger context where research has increasingly been becoming more ‘sensory and embodied.’ (Pink, 2015, p.1276 cited in Brown and Collins, 2021) A change has occurred in what is considered data (Brown and Collins, 2021, p.1275), the idea that some methods are more… Continue reading Design Reflection

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Action Plan 2

Action Plan 2 1.Design Reading and Planning 2. Gather Recorded formal and informal meetings for one week Kept a text and visual diary recording the experience of being in the meetings. Text Material: Brief Descriptive Notes Visual Material: Diagrams: Physical Set-Up Shapes: Tone and Action Colours: Emotions Images: Tone, Action and Emotion 3. Analyse Analysed… Continue reading Action Plan 2

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Action Plan 1

1.Record and Read Record formal and informal meetings in a fixed period of time Formal Meeting – Audio Recorder Informal Meetings and feelings about all meetings – Diary (2 weeks) Read about Different aspects of meeting, talking and interaction The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker Good to Great, Jim Collins Dare to Lead, Brene Brown… Continue reading Action Plan 1

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Bibliography: Unit

Books hooks, b. (1994) Teaching To Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Abingdon: Routledge. Friere, P. (1970) Pedagogy of the Oppressed. London: Penguin Random House. Stone, D., Patton, B. and Heen, S. (1999) Difficult Conversations: How to discuss what matters most. London: Portfolio Penguin. Bhagat, D. (ed.) and O’Neill, P. (ed.) (2011) Inclusive Practice,… Continue reading Bibliography: Unit

Session 3: Key Ideas

‘Dwell on uneasy feelings’ This seemed to be a deep lesson in how to move forward and instigate change. In the midst of so much that needs to be changed, this feels important to remember. Shirley Anne Tate Whiteliness: Institutional Racism Student talking about shame that non-white culture was so savage and uncultivated I remember… Continue reading Session 3: Key Ideas