If you are feeling confident in your choice of a particular topic for your Inquiry Project, you may only need to write about that topic. If you are unsure, explore two or three topics by responding to the following questions on your personal blog:
Part I: Exploration
1. Identify the issue or problem that you plan to focus on in your Inquiry Project. a. Synthesize the Veiws of process vs. product from both English and Art Education Perspective
b. integration--strengths and weaknesses) in both English and the Arts
2. What is your personal connection to and interest in this topic?
I am in Art Education and study Communications and have foundmyself in an interesting perspective to be able to analize different types of education strategies.
3. What opinions do you already hold about this topic?
I am learning that there are more parralels than I ever thought and I think that we could both learn from what the other has tried.
4. What knowledge do you already have about this topic. Alot on the Art side, but not too much from the English perspective.
What are your main questions about this topic?
What are process and product emphasis in both English and Art - past and present
How is "multicultural" works integrated?
What are you most curious about?
Is there a difference in theory v. application style at the colligiate level?
6. How might composition theorists and researchers approach or study this topic?
Perhaps a survey or interview?
Does this approach differ from those of other related disciplines (such as communication studies)?
not really.
7. How could you research this topic outside the library (for example, through interviews and/or observations)?
check the education journals and or find an art education source or theory book
Part II: Focusing
Write an initial claim, or an open-ended question, to guide your research on this topic. Make it specific but exploratory. Remember that a good claim opens up an area of inquiry about a topic; a claim should invite evidence, support, and debate.
Right from the beginning Language Arts and Applied/Fine Arts are seperated by certificate. But are they really different in the practice of education styles? Does theory match practice?
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Interesting, Meg. It seems like you're saying that language arts and fine arts differ in content area, but not methods. Is that right?
It would seem that such different arts would require different methods. What are you finding so far? Has your search been productive?
You are right, that is what I'm going for; especially in regards to teachers ignore reaserch and focus more on product verses process and where that leaves multicultural integration in the classroom.
Research will be interesting on this injuiry. But I love a good challenge.
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