Case study 3.

My thoughts on case study 3:

• Understanding that it is a business being ran, but how is it going to carry on for years if the treatment is bad. It's 2017 now and social media has a massive impact on things like this. One person can write a bad review and it can go viral and shut the place down. It may be a business but you have peoples health in your hands, rates being cheap may be good now but creating a bad reputation can ruin that very quickly.
• I don't believe the teaching methods are ethical, although the teacher may be being truthful (Denontologist) I again believe you shouldn't hurt somebody elses feelings. Not only this, but one persons opinion on a student maybe completely different to a majority of other teachers. 
• Belittling a person does not make show any morals at all. There is so many ways you can talk to a dancer, constructive critism I agree with, it makes a dancer better. But going about this situation in the correct manor would of had a different outcome.
• I am a big believer in treat people how you want to be treated. How can you get respect from your students if you don't give respect to them and there feelings.
• One ethic I use in the classroom is ensuring safety: How is this teacher ensuring this when he is putting everbody at risk of an injury? Personally as a dancer and a teacher this is not something I would put up with.

Case study 1 & 2

Case study 1: 

Ethics-

• Nobody has taken responsibilty for what happened: 'The NHS finds it notoriously hard to admit a mistake.' How is that fair? People lost lives because of this and families deserve answers.
•  Truth. Are we receiving the truth?: 'The two health secretaries, A
  lan Johnson and Andy Burnham, must convince us that they did not deny a public inquiry out
  of fear of what it might uncover about the system as a whole.' Why must they convince us? Why can we not just receive the truth?
• How can you have ethics and morals if they believe that: 'There is no statutory obligation to be honest with patients when things go wrong.'
   
  Above are three ethics I believe are important and I also believe we did not see, being truthful, taking repsonsibility, and honesty.
  
  
  Case Study 2: 
   I have read a few peoples blogs on this before writing about it and it is clear from an outsider we all believe we should help a human over a rule in a job. I also did say that we will never understand what we will actually do unless being in the situation at that moment and time. Some people will believe as a photographer he followed rules and did what was right, but personally I believe if you have any human morals how can you possibly watch somebody else suffer? I do believe the photographer Kevin Carter had morals otherwise he would never of took his own life, I just think that in the current situation he did what he thought was best for the job and followed the rules in the workplace. I have personally been in situations at work where I may not follow rules in order to help another human. That is my personal opinion, I will always help somebody in need over a rule or a job. 
  
  
  
  
   

Turning a full stop into a question mark.

Here is a clip of an advert that I found relatable to our individual inquiry. I found it so interesting and inspiring to watch, as soon as I seen this on TV I straight away thought about my inquiry. When I read something, should I question it?
Although this advert is about a phone it is clear to me that if you question something you can improve something!
So for example, the phone storage is full but with enough technology and research the new phone has more storage.
In relation to my inquiry, instead of researching does GCSE dance get the equal recognition as other academic subjects? What about researching on top of this, how can it get the equal recognition? What can we do to make dance equal? How do other people view this inquiry?

The advert has just been an eye opener, if we just put a question to things rather than a full stop the outcome can become bigger and better. 

Professional Ethics 5B & some of Ethical considerations.

I decided to take this from a different approach and ask a teacher who has observed me what she believed my professional ethics were in a classroom.

 

On the right hand side of the photo is the notes from the professional ethics that the teacher desribed I had. The reason I did this because I am new to teaching, it is something that I am working on every week to gain confidence and the more feedback I can receive the better I can become. I find that I judge myself very harsh sometimes so to see from somebody else that my morals and ethics are coming across how i'd like them to gibves me more confidence. 

On the left hand side of the photo is some of my current thoughts on Ethical considerations when planning out my inquiry. As I am not fully decided on my inquiry but I do know I want to use some of students to be involved I wrote down some of my considerations so far on how and what happens when I use them. As it is in the professional workplace I need to make sure it is all done in a professional manor and that all the students are comfortable with any information I share. As a teacher I think this is something the students understand as they usually have full confidence in their teacher. I have students that come and talk to me, sometimes asking me not to share with anyone else and sometimes for help and guidence and I always respect the students decision. I think they build a relationship with you where they trust you and want to share things to you, and the more you show support and they know you keep things confidential the more they can come to you.

Any students used throughout my inquiry will fully understand what they are involved in and what will be shared.

Action: Lying. Is this right or wrong?

After reading the first section of reader 5 I am now thinking about the morals of lying in much deeper depth than ever before, questioning why do people lie? How do you know what is right or wrong? Or is it all dependant on the personal beliefs and upbringing?

In terms of my personal life, I am a consequentialist. I am a firm believer that lying is wrong for the bad reasons - telling a lie to make yourself look better to others, lying because you want to hurt someone, lying because you are scared to own up to something. These are examples that I think you should not lie. However, if you told a 'white lie' in order to stop hurting somebody, or because you believe that people will benefit from this then I do believe it is acceptable. I believe these because of my upbringing, my parents have always been very open and truthful to me, which meant that I learnt that from them and portayed the same back. As lying is part of ethics and morals I also believe that you get this from your parents, this is not always correct but it can have a massive impact on you. For example my parents are honest, they always told my lying is not acceptable and you must be kind. Other parents that can be rude and do not have manors this usually rubs off onto the children. This is not always correct but I do believe that your parents are the biggest impact on your morals, afterall they do teach you what is right and wrong from being born.

Thinking about my professional life I think I interpret my personal life into my professional life. Emily Richards blog made a clear sense of how she works in a professional way and I 100% agree with her:
Emily's post

I think you the way you are in your professional life shows a side of your personal life, you teach how you believe is the right and best way for your students, I go about in my personal life to how I believe is the correct way for me and how I think I will get the most from everything.
The problem I think about in your professional life and as a teacher is you are doing what you think is the best for the students but what if the parents do not agree with this. So I could tell a 'white lie' in order to gain the best from the class but what if the background they come from dissagrees with this?
Do we go off what we believe is right or do we have to be a Deontologist?
Whats everyone elses thoughts?

Literature review - The arts are just as important as other subjects.

The arts are just as important as other subjects.

After coming across a report on an issue that is very close to my heart I have decided to review this. First of all I came across this because one of my questions from a previous blog was:
Does dance get as much credit as academic subjects? And does it deserve it?
The reason for this question is because of my own experience throughout my education. In high school I was always told not to put dance first, my teachers would explain that my other subjects were more important and needed more time than dance. But, my passion was dance so why is that not just as important? Anyway, throughout high school and up until now dancing has been my passion, and became the most important thing to me. I did do well in all my other subjects but for me, dancing was the one I wanted to achieve the most from.

The arts are just as important article.

Above is the link where you can read about how the government is trying to make GSCE dance equal to all other subjects. Some of the main points that stood out for me throughout the article that support my feelings towards dance are:

• Dance and drama are now separate GCSE subjects which are classed to be worth of study in their own right.
• Introducing arts to young people in every school rather than private schools and upper class families that can pay for the arts.
• Explaining and providing support that shows dancing career paths can be as successful as any other career path. 

From this article a few more questions that have now come to mind are:

• Since 2016 have the government and arts council had more support agreeing that dance is just as important as other subjects?
• Are schools providing enough education and support for the students that are wanting a serious career in dance? If so, what is the support?
• Since dance became a separate subject have more students took an interest in dance and become more inclined to take GCSE dance?

I have decided from here to now go an ask a few of these questions at my current work place and see what information I can gather from this. 

A piece of literature that now has given me 100 more questions.

The blog where I found this text.

So a question that I wrote in a blog a few weeks back was an inquiry along the lines of, 

'Is their benefits of being a performer before becoming a teaching over somebody who has trained specifically to teach from the beginning?'

I decided tonight to do a small bit of research to see if this topic or inquiry was something with a lot of information on. Straight away I came across this blog. The text I have inserted above is the section that stood out the most for me. Straight away I thought, how can somebody be so narrow minded? Who decides if you can only be a performer or only be a teacher? Who decides doing both is too much? Or if you are not able to achieve as much if you do both? 

 One of the main reasons I found the beginning of the blog so wrong is because I am one of the ones to prove it wrong. I have done dancing professionally alongside becoming a teacher.

The blog is very interesting and I am now excited to read more and get the research flowing. It now have 100 questions running through my mind which I am looking forward to where this will lead me. 

 

Reviewing literature for your Inquiry.

Something I am currently struggling with..
I have currently done a mind map of how to find the right literature for my inquiry but I am also feeling a bit lost.
I am wondering if anybody has any ways they find helpful to find the 'right' inquiry?
I am going to head to the library and also I am planning on doing some interviews with some teachers on their opinions on my inquiry questions so far.
As adesola said on one of her blogs. Take a quick look at it now and then come back to it in more depth when you have your inquiry. After all, its not a race to the finishing line.

SIG (Special interest groups)

As SIG is something new to me I decided to write down some of the things I gained from reading about it and my own personal opinion so far. It is something that as this module goes on I will be able to relate things more to my workplace and hopefully I will recognize it.

Beginning the process of Inquiry.

Before rushing ahead and trying to find one topic to specifically research to find my inquiry I decided to slowly read through reader 4 and write down some of my questions and thought's before doing any research.

I have taken time to read a few blogs today, so that from reading their blogs what questions do I now have? Have I found any inspiration? Or am I wanting to do something completely different?
As this is just the beginning of inquiry I am not expecting to find the answer straight away but I am hoping to find out knowledge that will interest me, make me question things and be intrigued to find out more before deciding on my inquiry.

Below is my beginning thoughts of Inquiry so far and some of the questions I have before starting my research. I decided to get a specific notepad for this module so that I can keep a diary of my journey to finding my inquiry.

Hopefully this is the start of something that can help me with my future career.