I have been away from blogging for quite a long time. But I want to at least report on what I was doing in the past week on every week end. This is a start on that. I have passed a really really busy time last week and also a very productive (!) - well I can't say that but I have been in the process and I got really good feedback from my colleagues.
1) Tutoring: I was engaged in tutoring on Monday morning. I am really enjoying tutoring in the art and design studio. I am being able to learn many things- how to engage the students in the process.
- The students of Architecture are required to be given an introduction to the design process (research process as a part of it).
- They might be exposed to how they will apply their art and design exercises in future design through some presentations.
- The students should be encouraged to use their sketchbook and the sketchbooks will be a part of the submission. It is needed to be ensured.
2) Presentation in the PhD LA Seminar: I presented in the PhD LA Seminar on Monday afternoon. I received quite a lot feedback from my colleagues. The most important ones that I need to keep in mind are-
- I might look into the gender difference in other activities- while they are playing if there is any change from before intervention. I might also look into their responses in the focus groups. I also need to look into the journals of environmental education to learn about how the situation prevails in European and British context.
- The change in teachers' thought process is an important finding. I can refer back to Jenny Roe's work.
- In discussion I should reflect upon the change in children's academic achievement- how much it has to do with the designed school ground or how much it has to do with change in teachers' motivation and others...I need to find out all the factors that can have an effect on children's academic achievement...
- Nevertheless its important to be self critical about the design. Many things might have happened due to location or scale or design of certain things. Its important to look into the patters of the activities- whether they are repeating into some other settings.
I have sent the feedback to my supervisors for their response. This might be a very rich guideline for me to work on the next analysis.
3) I have finished the behaviour maps of the children during play and learning before and after the intervention. Its really important as based on this I will continue the further analysis. But before that I might need to have a look again into the coding and get those finalized and approved by my supervisors.
4) The most important thing that I discovered this week is Zamini Zahra's thesis. I have got some really good guidelines for analysing the behaviour maps. I now can think of analysing the maps at different levels- zone, settings and elements.
5) I also got some real good feedback from Dipon vai about the contextbd article. My failure is I could not finish writing the article last week. I should finish it by next week. I might try tomorrow after tutoring.
6) Last but not the least, I attended SRK's public lecture on the 15th. I really liked how he weaved his story with threads from the name of his movies. I thoroughly enjoyed his talk and dance of course. He was talking about madness, fear, confusion and many others. It was an experience indeed.
Hope to see you my blog quite soon again.
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