SUMMARY PAGE OF PART
ONE
Title: What are the likely impacts on Dance teaching in the
maintained sector driven by the introduction of the English Baccalaureate?
Questions: Feedback from Alan: My advice is to work now to craft better questions that lead to discussion
and consideration of a range of perspectives. Therefore to not ask questions
that require a yes or no answer as this has no place to gain an overall
perspective on the question in hand. I am also targeting my questions now onto
Dance teachers and head teachers within the public sector of primary and
secondary level. As advised by my Advisor I have removed the involvement of
student feedback as this would cause considerable ethical implications and
would not provide the data that I would be able to adhere to.
Head Teachers:
1.
What
aspects of the Ebacc system in relation to the Arts concern you?
2.
What is
your view of how these changes may be implemented?
3.
What
changes will you make to adapt to the Introduction of the Ebacc system?
4.
What do
you think Arts in particular Dance brings to the Educational system?
5.
How do
you think the Ebacc system will affect Arts within Education for the future?
Dance Teachers:
1.
What do
you think Dance brings to Education?
2.
What
aspects of the Ebacc system in relation to the Arts concern you?
3.
What
affect do you think the Ebacc system will have on the students you teach?
4.
What
affect do you think the Ebacc system will have on your teaching?
5.
What
are your thoughts on the Ebacc system?
Ethical issues:
·
The
participants I intend to focus my time with are teacher and head teachers
within the public sector. I removed the involvement of student’s as you would
need to gain permission from the school and parent and for data protection
reasons I would be unable to gain their contact information.
·
On
completing an Ethical form stating the issues I endeavor to consider I will
need to implement this onto the parties I am gaining feedback from.
·
By
doing this I will request that they sign a consent form understanding their
position within the inquiry. I am lucky to have a number of people whom I know
in the education system who work as teachers. I would call upon them as my
initial network to gathering the data I require.
·
Within the consent form I will include:
1.
To not
include the name or place of the location which the data came from unless they
allowed me the permission to do so.
2.
When
dealing with a number of staff within one premise, the consideration of the way
I would secure the work so that other members of staff couldn't see what had
been written.
3.
If you
are using transcripts or recording of the interviews, check that the
participant is in awareness that their information will be used word for word
at a later date.
4.
Inform
the participant of what you are doing from the start.
5.
Ensure
they are within complete understanding of their involvement within the project
from the start.
6.
State
the purpose of your goal.
7.
Inform
the parties of the objectives and what will be done with the information during
and after you are carrying out the inquiry.
Points to be aware of:
1.
Try and
keep to your word of the length the interview may take or else they may lose
confidence in you.
2.
Providing
the participant with a thank you card for their time and showing your
appreciation of this as you are aware of their busy time schedule.
3.
To
commit to avoid the use of sexual, racist or offensive language and to those
who are disabled to ensure you abide by the Middlesex Universities policies.
4.
Offer
Feedback of the participants information provided, which can be particularly
important for interviews where meanings may need to be addressed.
Literature:
1.
Linda
Jasper, Director of Youth Dance England, “An Overview of the campaign to fight
for the position of dance in schools and the curriculum in England.”
2.
AQA GCSE
Dance Outline Syllabus booklet explaining the requirements of the subject.
3.
Department
of Education Article of Michael Gove’s titled “Securing our children’s future”
4.
Article
from the Guardian titled “What Michael Gove’s statement means for the Arts” written
by Charlotte Higgins
5.
The
Stage Magazine Article titled “ACE funds GCSE Arts review in drive to improve
cultural education written by Nicola Merrifield.
As I began reviewing the Literature I discovered a need for
Clarification. It was not clear as to if the Arts have been removed from the
Ebacc system or not. Therefore I plan to contact the department of Education
requesting for some documentation that clarifies the current status on this and
then I can proceed with organizing my title and research.
