Progress on proposalEthical Considerations Inquiry Proposal and Forms Tutor Paula Nottingham

There are bigger issues within your context that you might need to consider to plan your inquiry – political, cultural and social …

…and your own context – personal and professional

Summing up Part 4 and leading into Part 5Where are you now? Discuss this with your tutor and peers.

•Progress on you topic and then inquiry Questions

•Progress on working with Special Interest Groups (SIGs) – join more than 1 with BAPP Arts and use your workplace SIG for professional conversations you are not doing the ‘research’ now but you can ask informal questions with professional colleagues to help focus your inquiry – save the ‘research ‘ for Module 3

•Insider Research (Costley et al book for this module) and ethical considerations

•Forms – Employer/Professional Support and Ethics Release Form + Award specialism title

Portfolio submission FROM HANDBOOK

Part 1: Professional Inquiry Proposal You are asked to produce a proposal plan for a professional inquiry.The indicated word count for this proposal is 3,000 words and uses Harvard referencing.

Part 2: Critical Reflection You are asked to produce a written summary entitled “Critical Reflection on Professional Practitioner Inquiry”. The suggested length of the summary is 500 words that can be embedded with links that refer to your blog or have appendices with evidence/illustrations from your learning journal.

Part 3: Professional Inquiry Forms1. Ethics Release form - that summarises the ethics for your professional inquiry2. Employer/Professional Support form - this should be form your workplace employer or professional peer dependent on your proposal3. Award Specialism Title form – this is a negotiated element

Taking stock – writing your proposal

WHERE ARE YOU IN THIS PROCESS? WHERE ARE THE OTHERS in our BAPP NETWORK?

The proposal incorporates practitioner research but also any outcomes you hope to get out of doing the inquiry

Have you chosen a topic and narrowed it down to something more specific?

A special interest group (SIG) is about finding a few people within BAPP Arts or in your workplace who can help you think about and discuss your topic and ethics.

If you have not already – ask someone to join you in discussion on the blogs, FB, LinkedIn or face-to–face!

What are your inquiry questions? What do you want to find out?

You have been looking at sources - these can come from areas of practice and books about how to research your area of practice.LOOK at Summon and the Library Guides in the Library section on My UniHub – there is also a study section on within the module up on MyLearning.

Don’t forget to use other practitioners and their arts research – these will also inform the codes of practice’ you use for your inquiry… Look at the research literature on the Reading List (on your module site).

Inquiry Proposal – indicated 3000 word count

An inquiry proposal is based on the activities you will carry out in order to undertake your professional inquiry, practitioner research and activities will have implications and outcomes.

Each person will produce a unique proposal.

It should be written in the academic style.

It involves using ethical practice.

What is the relationship between personal ethics and professional ethics ?

What about the relationship of your work and society?

(Blaxter, Hughes and Tight, 2001)

The proposal will also include some practitioner research. A research analogy – exploratory practitioner research might relate more to the 2nd example?

What do you think now that you have thought about several topics or questions?

What is your inquiry going to be about?

A summary of basic research design (Mason, 2002) You will probably recognise that we use a variation of this type of language

for the practitioner research aspects of your inquiry proposal – your consideration of ethical values is embedded into the inquiry.

Research problem, question or hypothesis Background of research (context) - theory, purposeMethodology – e.g. constructivist… using approaches such as case studiesMethods - tools (observations, interviews, focus groups, surveys,

documents )Sampling – who are the people you will be talking with?Data handling and analysis – what you learn from talking with othersPilot study - not just trying tools like Module 2 – this is after ethics

permission – this would be the first interview as an example for the restEthics important bit to plan for your professional inquiry DRAFT FORMS

BEFORE SUBMISSION ARE ADVISED Timetable – leave time in after feedback Resources – computer, travel?, any thing else?

Outline of the Inquiry Plan – these are the headings you use to write up your proposal – this outline is in the Module 2 Handbook

Title of the Professional Inquiry (a working title of your inquiry)Context of the Inquiry (what is your professional practice and why is this inquiry meaningful to you within your professional practice)Rationale and Inquiry Question(s) (what are you trying to find out more about and how will this improve your practice)Aims / Objectives (Aims: what outcomes do you plan to achieve; Objectives: what are you are actually going to do in the inquiry)Literature, art work and Ideas (What are the existing ideas, discussions and thoughts about the area or topic of your inquiry?)Inquiry tools & Ethical consent/permissions (What data collecting tools will you use and why? use your experience piloting inquiry tool to explain why you think these are appropriate. Explanations should relate to the Ethic Release form and Employer/Professional Support forms you will submit about your inquiry)Approach to analysis (how will you think through the information you will collect in the inquiry. That is how will you find a relationship or draw conclusions between the existing ideas, your experience and data you collect) Resources (What are the resources needed to carry out the inquiry)Schedule of activities

What you will need to do for your submission (copied from the handbook)

Part 1: Professional Inquiry Proposal

•what the discussions are around this topic in published literature, your professional field, and the ethical considerations these raise.

•what inquiry tools you are going to use to gather data and why those tools are appropriate (including paperwork to support ethical conduct).

•The tools (research methods) are in Part 6…

5aTaking your place of work / professional community which is familiar to you, consider the ethics which might apply there.

What are the codes of practice/regulations which guide the setting?

Do this without reference to any documents or discussion.

Rely on your own thoughts wholly. Blog your thoughts.

5bFind out what are the codes of practice / regulations which steer the ethical framework in the place of work / professional community.

These could come from statutory sources e.g. legislation or from professional sources.

Blog how your findings differ from your assumptions and thoughts above.

Professional ethics or professional values

https://www.bsms.ac.uk/research/ethics-and-humanities/ethics-in-performance/ethics-in-performance.aspx

http://www.istd.org/site-search/?keywords=Code+of+Professional+Conduct+and+Practice+for+Teachers+of+Dance

http://www.ethicsdance.co.uk

5cConsult the reader on Professional Ethics especially the requirements for carrying out practitioner inquiry. How does what you have learnt fit in to the theoretical ethical framework. How does what you have discovered fit in with the ethics of professional inquiry? Blog what you have learned about the ideas surrounding ethics in a professional context after reviewing Reader 5.

5dDiscuss with your SIG the ethical dimensions of your proposed inquiry and give feedback to your class peers on their blogs. Prepare drafts of your Ethics Release Form and the Employer/Professional Support Form (a signature needed on this form) from the templates provided in order to submit them in your plan by the end of the study period. Send these forms to your tutor for feedback.

Practitioner research ethics

e.g. Case Study 3: The Dance Class (pp. 19- 20) Alicia is a student on the BA Professional Practice course in Middlesex and she is doing her last project – an inquiry into how warm ups are used during dance classes. She is doing the inquiry in a number of dance schools who run classes on a commercial basis. Already she has carried out her inquiry in two schools and found examples of good practice… READ THE REST

Thinking point / discussion – using the framework consider the ethical issue. Are these teaching methods ethical? Is there any way in which they are ethical? Does moral relativism add anything to the issues?

Use Reader 5 to help think through your inquiry… scan the Reader – there is a lot there – but 2 pages to definitely look at are:  p. 20 Who are your participants? (role, experience, age?) How have you chosen these participants?Why were the participants chosen (relate to Inquiry question)How will you contact them? Will you need to talk to Gatekeepers to do this? How will you make sure that your participants can leave the inquiry if they desire to do so? Do the participants have your contact details. Are you storing the participants data safely?  

Practitioner research Ethics

Professional ethics or professional values What would you write about your inquiry?

2. The ethics release form is about explaining the practitioner research you plan to do. Who will you talk to ? Why? The context? How can you insure that you will not harm anyone? Confidentiality? Anonymity? Use the BLANK BAPP Arts informed consent form You can draft your ‘invitations to participate’ and information sheets (or emails) ready to send to your participants… Send in a draft pdf version to your tutor.

1. Your employer/professional support form is about getting the ‘gatekeeper’ permission for carrying out the inquiry in a workplace. It relates to professional ethics. Choose the form that relates to your workplace – you may need more than one form if you work in 2 places. f you are freelance you can have a peer professional colleague sign this.Fill it out - print it – then get the signature – then scan in a copy and send in that digital copy to your tutor.

2 Forms explain and get permission for your inquiry proposal. They need to be submitted – draft to your adviser before that! UP ON MyLearning

Give specifics on this form – 1 - Outline context and sector - where do you work and what is your role? 2 - State your project aims-why are you doing the practitioner research?3. State your project methodology – what tools or methods will you use? be specific e.g. 4-6 dance professionals or 2 teachers in my school and 1 Head – using informed consent forms and the signed Employer/Professional Support form form the Head Teacher4. Tick all the boxes and comment

We have 2 forms to choose from 1. for those working in schools and at one particular workplace to make clear that the permission is directly related to the practitioner research element you are doing 2. for freelancers with no 1 workplaceNote* we are doing additional templates for letters home for those working in schools – if required. Any research with under 16s years requires extra care.

MORE ADVICE on the Ethics Release From

http://seraclops.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/task-5c-part-1_23.html

An example of considering and discussing ethics…

Module 2 WBS3630

This study period submission for your Module 2 is 6th January 2017. There will be more information up about this closer to the submission date.

The proposal is assessed and the ethics go to the ethics board in February – after that you will get feedback about your inquiry and the practitioner research. After this permission from the university (sometimes with conditions) you can carry out your research.

So to inform your planning – this would mean that you will submit your final inquiry WBS3760 Module 3 in May 2017 unless you need to self-defer.

Award Specialism Title form – this is a negotiated element

This is the form up on My Learning for choosing a specialism to allow you to have more specific arts areas for your degree title: discuss with your tutor as this title will need to be reviewed as a part of your programme planning.

Action plan for the next steps?

Do an Action plan for developing your topic and thinking about your ethical issues Part 5 TALK TO YOUR TUTOR

Looking at professional codes of practice and your university inquiry research…

Starting to write up the proposal draft…Sending drafts of the forms to your adviser….

Part 6 – looking at tools/methods – trying out with others in BAPP Arts or close friends how to carry out the tools (but not on members of the public – that is after ethical approval)

Completing the proposal draft for feedback – send this to your tutor after your cover Part 6 – the tools. Start looking at the ethics form now…