Project X (as it doesn't have a name as yet) will be shared between Laura Davitt and myself.
Laura and I are both worker researchers withing Chicken shed Theatre company. Using forum theatre, verbatim theatre and T.I.E (theatre in education) we will be discovering sex education and how it is taught in secondary school within London.
discussing with voluntary participants their experiences of sex education and how they felt it was taught using questionnaires and theatrical workshops. We want to find out how they think it should be taught and see if they match with our ideas.
Myself and Laura would potentially like to create a piece that we could take into schools to perform to change young peoples views of Sex. To take responsibility for your actions, to always practice safe sex, and to never let anyone pressurize you into anything you are not ready for or do not wish to do. These are the starting points of what will be a very interesting, challenging project for the both of us
Tuesday 30 March 2010
Activity 2 Advantages and Disadvantages of workers as researchers.
Here are some more potential advantages and disadvantages for workers as researchers.
There may be more trust. Whether that be the individual has more trust in fellow co leagues/piers; and them having more trust in you.
It is easier to have conversations with people,cast,backstage members, managers etc face to face. It can make the experience more personal and people more familiar with you.
You have first had experience of the events that take place at your workplace making it easier to involve yourself.
Easier to see the development. If you have direct contact with your workplace and are there a lot of the time it is easier for you to see the development and progress you have made within the company. You may see progression and development in future projects.
You may find yourself being biased.
Could become complacent within the work place.
Conflict of opinions.
You can become emotionally involved
Could find that you rely on other people too much and lose independence.
In some partnerships can be too friendly to be professional.
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Advantage 1
I have a major advantage as I have been at Chicken shed for almost 5 years and have trust in my piers and employer as they have trust in me. I have a number of people I can call upon for support and guidance if and when I need It.
I would like to create a piece of theatre for my project which potentially can be taken into schools and performed to young people. Having this performance aspect to my project means having people who will be able to share their skills and express their views and opinions. I trust these members of staff and they trust me and that is key to when creating a piece.
My partner in this project Laura Davitt is someone who I have a lot of performance experience with. We have a strong, professional friendship and an understanding for each others opinions.
Trust is crucial to a partnership and I am fortunate to say we both trust each other and are both willing to put in what we want to get out of our experience together.
having this advantage means I can see Laura and other colleagues on a daily basis.
Having Chicken shed trust me in terms of what I can deliver means I can challenge myself and will fee comfortable to ut ideas forward to them in terms of my project.
It may be possible for us to do a workshop with the BTEC students, youth theatre members and their Lunar group (21 years plus.) Having this trust puts us into a good position as Chicken shed know we will always be professional.
Advantage 2
It is a fantastic advantage to be able to see the development of your project first hand.
I can arrange workshops and see the process and product and if the project is a success it may then change the route of outreach because Chicken Shed. Laura and I potentially want to change the way that sex education is taught in schools and in researching, gathering information and data, peoples experiences we want to have an end product that will change/develop outreach work and sex education.
I will also contribute to the progression of individuals participation.
for example: performers alongside me, devising workshops, people I might be choreographing etc.
Within my project people are a key aspect because its people opinions that could shape how we go about planning how we wish to change things. I will be doing this using the inclusive method.
There may be more trust. Whether that be the individual has more trust in fellow co leagues/piers; and them having more trust in you.
It is easier to have conversations with people,cast,backstage members, managers etc face to face. It can make the experience more personal and people more familiar with you.
You have first had experience of the events that take place at your workplace making it easier to involve yourself.
Easier to see the development. If you have direct contact with your workplace and are there a lot of the time it is easier for you to see the development and progress you have made within the company. You may see progression and development in future projects.
You may find yourself being biased.
Could become complacent within the work place.
Conflict of opinions.
You can become emotionally involved
Could find that you rely on other people too much and lose independence.
In some partnerships can be too friendly to be professional.
___________________________________________________________________
Advantage 1
I have a major advantage as I have been at Chicken shed for almost 5 years and have trust in my piers and employer as they have trust in me. I have a number of people I can call upon for support and guidance if and when I need It.
I would like to create a piece of theatre for my project which potentially can be taken into schools and performed to young people. Having this performance aspect to my project means having people who will be able to share their skills and express their views and opinions. I trust these members of staff and they trust me and that is key to when creating a piece.
My partner in this project Laura Davitt is someone who I have a lot of performance experience with. We have a strong, professional friendship and an understanding for each others opinions.
Trust is crucial to a partnership and I am fortunate to say we both trust each other and are both willing to put in what we want to get out of our experience together.
having this advantage means I can see Laura and other colleagues on a daily basis.
Having Chicken shed trust me in terms of what I can deliver means I can challenge myself and will fee comfortable to ut ideas forward to them in terms of my project.
It may be possible for us to do a workshop with the BTEC students, youth theatre members and their Lunar group (21 years plus.) Having this trust puts us into a good position as Chicken shed know we will always be professional.
Advantage 2
It is a fantastic advantage to be able to see the development of your project first hand.
I can arrange workshops and see the process and product and if the project is a success it may then change the route of outreach because Chicken Shed. Laura and I potentially want to change the way that sex education is taught in schools and in researching, gathering information and data, peoples experiences we want to have an end product that will change/develop outreach work and sex education.
I will also contribute to the progression of individuals participation.
for example: performers alongside me, devising workshops, people I might be choreographing etc.
Within my project people are a key aspect because its people opinions that could shape how we go about planning how we wish to change things. I will be doing this using the inclusive method.
Meeting at Chicken Shed March 25th
A second meeting was held with myself, Sarah Connolly, Laura Davitt, Murat Shevket, Zoe Kennedy, Michael Gavas, Klara Kalvelage. We came together for the second time, this time without our tutor Paula to discuss how we were progressing concerning our final projects and to hear each others ideas. Most people within the group are almost sure of what path they want to take and seem to have a theme to their project.
We discussed how we could benefit our work placement Chicken Shed with our ideas and projects.
This meeting was a success and gave us all individual goals for the next follow up meeting.
We read/worked through our handbook and most of the group had started or completed for the first 2 activities.
I completed activity 3 the 12 key points and applied them to my chosen topic of sex education.
As a group we discussed individual titles for our project and discussed the difference between question and statement titles.
our goals for next session.
Analise a piece of text relevant to your chosen subject.
order research book
Put work up to our blogs
think more about individual titles
Our next meeting will be Thursday April1st.
We discussed how we could benefit our work placement Chicken Shed with our ideas and projects.
This meeting was a success and gave us all individual goals for the next follow up meeting.
We read/worked through our handbook and most of the group had started or completed for the first 2 activities.
I completed activity 3 the 12 key points and applied them to my chosen topic of sex education.
As a group we discussed individual titles for our project and discussed the difference between question and statement titles.
our goals for next session.
Analise a piece of text relevant to your chosen subject.
order research book
Put work up to our blogs
think more about individual titles
Our next meeting will be Thursday April1st.
Activity 1 Glossary
Key words of different forms of research that could be beneficial to me and my project.
Action Research
begins with a problem and aims to take action to improve the situation
1) i wish to develop the way sex education is taught
2) to gain concrete knowledge/information/experiences from young people to create a piece of theatre.
3)to develop Chicken Sheds outreach projects and to discover a new area of workshops.
Our "problem" is going to be discovered through the use of questionnaires and surveys. Possibly group discussions and workshops concerning sex education. talking to people who are happy enough to talk about sex education and the way its taught or their own personal experiences, what could be improved etc.
Ethnography
Is when the researcher becomes a participant observer of the group being
studied
1) Create workshops and record the theatrical devices used.
2) Being an active observer delivering the workshop should mean being willing to participate when necessary. This may be to create an energetic atmosphere, or more support may be needed if there is a large number of people participating in the workshop.
Questionnaires
A key aspect of getting information together and having data in one place where it can be gathered and categorized accordingly using open/closed questions.
1) questionnaires are an easy way for people to express themselves openly and confidentially. They can write as little or as much as they wish without feeling pressurized.
It is important as i am dealing with what can be seen as a "touchy subject" that questionaires are anonymous for the protection of participants.
Action Research
begins with a problem and aims to take action to improve the situation
1) i wish to develop the way sex education is taught
2) to gain concrete knowledge/information/experiences from young people to create a piece of theatre.
3)to develop Chicken Sheds outreach projects and to discover a new area of workshops.
Our "problem" is going to be discovered through the use of questionnaires and surveys. Possibly group discussions and workshops concerning sex education. talking to people who are happy enough to talk about sex education and the way its taught or their own personal experiences, what could be improved etc.
Ethnography
Is when the researcher becomes a participant observer of the group being
studied
1) Create workshops and record the theatrical devices used.
2) Being an active observer delivering the workshop should mean being willing to participate when necessary. This may be to create an energetic atmosphere, or more support may be needed if there is a large number of people participating in the workshop.
Questionnaires
A key aspect of getting information together and having data in one place where it can be gathered and categorized accordingly using open/closed questions.
1) questionnaires are an easy way for people to express themselves openly and confidentially. They can write as little or as much as they wish without feeling pressurized.
It is important as i am dealing with what can be seen as a "touchy subject" that questionaires are anonymous for the protection of participants.
missing today!!
unfortunately due to a lifeguard re-newal exam i had to miss today's seminar. I will be heading up though with the chicken shed group this Thursday in a meeting to catch up! so all is not lost.
Thursday 4 March 2010
First Entry - Campus session 1
The "final project" is a word that has been used throughout this course and has always remained an exciting aspect for me.
Doing your own work
Being your own boss (with appropriate guidance)
researching into a topic you believe strongly in
Making a difference in your own individual way.
And then the booklet arrived...
I think I panicked; I didn’t really understand what I was reading and had a few concerns that it would not be what I had expected. I went to the first campus session with an open mind and ready to learn about the new experiences that lay ahead of me.
Paula and Rosemary explained everything to me thoroughly with the use of a slide show; looking at information, how to gather it and most of all to do something that you are not going to get bored of.
I felt assured that I was going to be ok as long as i put the effort in, what I put into my project I will get out of it. People asked questions accordingly and I felt the meeting was definitely successful.
I have a few ideas in mind for my final project but nothing concrete as yet. Its interesting talking to people and hearing their ideas and its great how people are doing things differently.Having a meeting with Paula with the people at Chicken Shed with the "shedders" definitely gave us some much needed support and confidence to spend the following week cracking on with Ideas and what area we want to discover and research.
Doing your own work
Being your own boss (with appropriate guidance)
researching into a topic you believe strongly in
Making a difference in your own individual way.
And then the booklet arrived...
I think I panicked; I didn’t really understand what I was reading and had a few concerns that it would not be what I had expected. I went to the first campus session with an open mind and ready to learn about the new experiences that lay ahead of me.
Paula and Rosemary explained everything to me thoroughly with the use of a slide show; looking at information, how to gather it and most of all to do something that you are not going to get bored of.
I felt assured that I was going to be ok as long as i put the effort in, what I put into my project I will get out of it. People asked questions accordingly and I felt the meeting was definitely successful.
I have a few ideas in mind for my final project but nothing concrete as yet. Its interesting talking to people and hearing their ideas and its great how people are doing things differently.Having a meeting with Paula with the people at Chicken Shed with the "shedders" definitely gave us some much needed support and confidence to spend the following week cracking on with Ideas and what area we want to discover and research.
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