Time of change...

 After reviewing Module 1 and looking at where my 'weakness' lay I started taking another look back at Ethics. However after the discussion groups last Wednesday and Thursday I am taking it back a step further. Our Zoom discussion made me realize I had read the handbook and my head had been filled with information, possible ideas for inquiry but mostly a big old blghhhhhhhh! I didn't know what to do with it all!!! So in this Blog I will start by making a summary for myself (and hopefully it's helpful to others) of how I am approaching this Module. Remember - you're not doing the research this module, but doing the research design Researching Research - looking for literature and artifacts about research and not the field of my enquiry We are not setting out to answer our questions, but trying to explore it and give it a context Allow questions to emerge, to find your ultimate question (Helen described this with a great piece of imagery: imagine dropping a pebble in...

Reflecting on Module 1, I have taken it upon myself to delve deeper into Ethics. I feel I only touched the surface previously and need to make a concerted effort to understand the topic better and what implications this has on my practice. (And how it will play a role in my later inquiry). To do this I feel I need to go back to the roots, literally.  I have centered my first part of reading and research process in 'Theatre & Ethics'. A study that moves through History taking an academic approach to the works of Playwrights and their subjects. What has shaped the ethics of the time, and how the ethics of that time shaped the play. I think it already sounds interesting! But there's a lot to take in and analyse. For anyone else who struggled applying the ethical considerations to their Module 1 reflection, I can recommend this as a bit of extra reading.    Here I have added a picture of the city of Hamburg , my former home. This was after the horrific air raids of WW2 Th...