The research I have undertaken is a qualitative research. It is a small-scale scholarly enquiry, as required within the framework of the PgCert. I see it as a prototype for a possibly larger, more long-term investigation. I have progressed through an iterative process of firstly establishing a baseline by looking at the current experience of …
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3rd Intervention with MA AI students
My third intervention with MA AI students took place on 13th April and six students took part. Following the iterative approach to interventions in my Action Research, as described in the Research Method section on my Workflow page, I integrated what I learned from the previous interventions. Here the learning points I had made from …
2nd Intervention with MA AI students
My second interventions with MA AI students took place two weeks later. This time eight students took part. Following the iterative intervention approach of Action Research as described in the Research Methods section on my Workflow page, I integrated in this second intervention what I had learned from the first intervention. These learning points had …
First Intervention with MA AI students
I undertook the first intervention on 2nd February 2021 ahead of my group tutorial with the MA students of Applied Imagination in the Creative Industries at CSM. The students had been made aware of what was coming, what this is for and gave their written consent (more details about my approach to cover ethical requirements …
Prompt questions and group interview prior to first intervention
Before undertaking any interventions I thought it important to find out what the impact of nearly a year of online learning experience has had so far on the students. This is in order to establish where the baseline state is, as otherwise it would be impossible to analyse an impact of my interventions. I emailed …
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Reading: Rebecca Crane “Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy”
This is a book I read many times in the past for my practice as a psychotherapist and it was a joy to revisit it for my PgCert Self-initiated Project. I am here summarising a part of the book that is vitally relevant to my research project. The body scan / Vipassana meditation technique I …
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Reading: Cohen, L.; Morrison, K.; Manion, L.; Bell, R. (2011) “Research methods in education”
When looking at what type of interviews would be suitable for my action research project I found the chapter “Interviews” (pp. 409-443) of this book helpful and it gave me a lot to reflect on. There is a good collection of key terms which determine quantitative vs. qualitative approaches: And it follows on to describe: …
Reading: Mary McAteer’s “Action Research in Education”
I looked in particular at chapter 4 of this book: “Collecting, Collating and Conversing with Data”. Here the author discusses what counts as data and follows on to talk about quantitative versus qualitative data. She establishes that in action research the type of data to be collected and the type of collection is highly depending …
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Reading: Jim Parsons on Action Research and Its Ethical Practices
This is an interesting paper by Jim Parsons. It is mostly geared towards Action Research at schools, but can easily translated for the use of Action Research at universities. He starts off with collating information about the unique context of Action Research and follows on going through five key principles of research ethics for Action …
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Reading: Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s “Phenomenology of Perception”
My SiP examines how grounding and awareness of the physical presence through various therapeutic approaches, can help to feel present, authentic and connected in a virtual teaching and learning environment. Therefore I was quite excited when I came across Merleau-Ponty’s book “Phenomenology of Perception”. In it, he states: “The body is our general medium for …
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