Final 28.10.15 m2 bapp arts ethical practice

Module 2 WBS363028/10/15Ethical

Considerations for your

Inquiry Proposal and Forms

Summing up Part 4 and leading into Part 5

Where are you now?

•Progress on Inquiry Questions•Progress on working with Special Interest Groups (SIGs) – naming the groups and how to join in on their conversations•Insider Research and professional practice•Ethical considerations•Forms – Employer/Professional Support and Ethics Release Form

Taking stock – writing your proposal

WHERE ARE YOU IN THIS PROCESS? WHERE ARE THE OTHERS in our BAPP NETWORK?

The proposal incorporates practitioner research but also any outcomes you hope to get out of doing the inquiry

Have you chosen a topic and narrowed it down to something more specific?

A special interest group (SIG) is about finding a few people within BAPP Arts or in your workplace who can help you think about and discuss your topic and ethics.

If you have not already – ask someone to join you in discussion on the blogs, FB, LinkedIn or face-to–face!

What are your inquiry questions? What do you want to find out?

You have been looking at sources - these can come from areas of practice and books about how to research your area of practice - don’t forget to use other practitioners and their arts research – these will also inform the codes of practice’ you use for your inquiry…

Blaxter, Hughes and Tight

The proposal will also include some practitioner research. A research analogy – exploratory practitioner research might relate more to the 2nd example?

What do you think now that you have thought about several topics or questions?

What is your inquiry going to be about?

A summary of basic research design (Mason, 2002) You will probably recognise that we use a variation of this type of language for the practitioner research aspects of your inquiry proposal – your consideration of ethical values is embedded into the inquiry

Research problem, question or hypothesis Background of research (context) - theory, purposeMethodology – e.g. constructivist… using approaches such as case studiesMethods - tools (i.e. interviews, focus groups)Sampling – who are the people you will be talking with?Data handling and analysis – what you learn from talking with othersPilot study - not just trying tools – this is after ethics permission – to first

interview for exampleEthics important bit to plan for your professional inquiryTimetableResources

Outline of the Inquiry Plan – these are the headings you use to write up your proposal

Title of the Professional Inquiry (a working title of your inquiry)Context of the Inquiry (what is your professional practice and why is this inquiry meaningful to you within your professional practice)Rationale and Inquiry Question(s) (what are you trying to find out more about and how will this improve your practice)Aims / Objectives (Aims: what outcomes do you plan to achieve; Objectives: what are you are actually going to do in the inquiry)Literature, art work and Ideas (What are the existing ideas, discussions and thoughts about the area or topic of your inquiry?)Inquiry tools & Ethical consent/permissions (What data collecting tools will you use and why? use your experience piloting inquiry tool to explain why you think these are appropriate. Explanations should relate to the Ethic Release form and Employer/Professional Support forms you will submit about your inquiry)Approach to analysis (how will you think through the information you will collect in the inquiry. That is how will you find a relationship or draw conclusions between the existing ideas, your experience and data you collect) Resources (What are the resources needed to carry out the inquiry)Schedule of activities

Inquiry Proposal – 3000 words

An inquiry proposal is based on the activities you will carry out in order to undertake your professional inquiry, practitioner research and activities will have implications and outcomes.

Each person will produce a unique proposal.

It should be written in the academic style.

It involves using ethical practice.

Portfolio submission for Module 2 WBS3630 – what you will need to do for your submission (copied form the handbook)

Part 1: Professional Inquiry Proposal You are asked to produce a proposal plan for a professional inquiry. This plan should inform the reader of the following: the topic of your inquiry and why it is meaningful to you in your professional practice:

•what the discussions are around this topic in published literature, your professional field, and the ethical considerations these raise. •what inquiry tools you are going to use to gather data and why those tools are appropriate (including paperwork to support ethical conduct).•what analysis process you will carry out using the data you collected, your experiences and the published literature and professional discussions. THIS IS FOR NEXT TIME!!

5aTaking your place of work / professional community which is familiar to you, consider the ethics which might apply there.

What are the codes of practice/regulations which guide the setting?

Do this without reference to any documents or discussion.

Rely on your own thoughts wholly. Blog your thoughts.

5bFind out what are the codes of practice / regulations which steer the ethical framework in the place of work / professional community.

These could come from statutory sources e.g. legislation or from professional sources.

Blog how your findings differ from your assumptions and thoughts above.

Professional ethics or professional values

5cConsult the reader on Professional Ethics especially the requirements for carrying out practitioner inquiry. How does what you have learnt fit in to the theoretical ethical framework. How does what you have discovered fit in with the ethics of professional inquiry? Blog what you have learned about the ideas surrounding ethics in a professional context after reviewing Reader 5.

5dDiscuss with your SIG the ethical dimensions of your proposed inquiry and give feedback to your class peers on their blogs. Prepare drafts of your Ethics Release Form and the Employer/Professional Support Form (a signature needed on this form) from the templates provided in order to submit them in your plan by the end of the study period. Send these forms to your tutor for feedback.

Practitioner research ethics

e.g. Case Study 3: The Dance Class (pp. 19- 20) Alicia is a student on the BA Professional Practice course in Middlesex and she is doing her last project – an inquiry into how warm ups are used during dance classes. She is doing the inquiry in a number of dance schools who run classes on a commercial basis. Already she has carried out her inquiry in two schools and found examples of good practice… READ THE REST

Thinking point / discussion – using the framework consider the ethical issue. Are these teaching methods ethical? Is there any way in which they are ethical? Does moral relativism add anything to the issues?

Use Reader 5 to help think through your inquiry…

 p. 20 Who are your participants? (role, experience, age?) How have you chosen these participants?Why were the participants chosen (relate to Inquiry question)How will you contact them? Will you need to talk to Gatekeepers to do this? How will you make sure that your participants can leave the inquiry if they desire to do so? Do the participants have your contact details. Are you storing the participants data safely?  

What is the relationship between personal ethics and professional ethics ?

What about the relationship of your work and society?

Practitioner research Ethics

Professional ethics or professional values What would you write about your inquiry?

A sample discussion from the workshop about planning the ethical considerations - permissions from gatekeepers and your employer, informed consent from those you talk to (confidentiality and anonymity)

2. The ethics release form is about stating clearly and explaining the practitioner research you plan to do. It relates to practitioner research ethics.

Who will you talk to ? Why? The context? How can you insure that you will not harm anyone? Confidentiality? Anonymity? Use the sample informed consent form to help plan…

Send in the pdf version

1. Your employer/professional support form is about getting the ‘gatekeeper’ permission for carrying out the inquiry in a workplace. It relates to professional ethics – you may need more than one if you have several places you are doing research – if you are freelance – you can have a professional colleague sign this.

Fill it out - print it – then get the signature – then scan in a copy and send that digital copy in

2 Forms explain and get permission for your inquiry proposal. They need to be submitted – draft to your adviser before that!

Action plan for the next steps?

Discussion… ethical issues Part 5 - like the discussion on the whiteboard and the tasks

Looking at professional versus practitioner research…

Starting to write up the proposal draft…Sending drafts of the forms to your adviser….

Part 6 – looking at tools/methods – trying out (but not on members of the public – that is after ethical approval)

Completing the proposal draft for feedback

http://seraclops.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/task-5c-part-1_23.html

An example of considering and discussing ethics…