When beginning to think about my award title a few things
came into mind that I needed to think about so I scribbled some notes down onto
paper to see what I was thinking more clearer. My main passion in life is Dance
and is something that will always be part of my life and career past present
and future, so of course that had to be in the title, At this current moment I am
still performing as well as teaching so here I struggled slightly, the
performer is who I am and the teacher is what I want to be in the future,
should one override the other or both be thought about?
I found an interesting quote in
chapter
'Developing the Knowledge Base: A Process Perspective on Professional
Education' which frrst appeared in Learning to Effict edited by Ronald
Barnett, 1993 (Society for Research in Higher Education/Open University Press).
A simple line of
‘The knowing how is as important as the knowing that’
Which I thought was relevant to my line of thought at this
moment, struggling between the performer and the teacher, the knowing how being
the performer and the knowing that being the teacher, meaning I should not
forget about my performance knowledge as it is what has got me to this teaching
point today.
I then however moved on to think about why I did this degree
and what I wanted it to gain for me in the future, which was to open more path
ways to teaching and owning my own school in the future.
So in conclusion I came up with three award titles;
BA Hons Professional Practice in Dance.
BA Hons Professional Practice in Dance Performance and
Education.BA Hons Professional Practice in Dance Education.
Out of the three I feel I am leaning more towards the last
one it is simplistic and straight forward. I have decided not to use the one
with performance in as even though performance is my present it will at one
point not be my future and the education side is so I would like an award that I
can take with me into the future.
Your thoughts would be much appreciated.
chapter
'Developing the Knowledge Base: A Process Perspective on Professional
Education' which frrst appeared in Learning to Effict edited by Ronald
Barnett, 1993 (Society for Research in Higher Education/Open University Press).
Hi Steph, this is a great post, I can really relate to and appreciate what your are saying. I am a trained dancer and still performing myself, like you said it is always something I will have a passion for, however in moving my career forward I would like to begin a transition into television, yet I am not bound to any time constrictions - so how do you put a title on this? I think you've vocalised and nailed your title completely, as it entirely relates to where you are going, but does not dismiss what you are doing now!
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