Refining Questions
Blog Post by Carolyn
Hill
I spoke with Leslie this weekend and found that my
previous question: “How can art education remain relevant to high school
students in the 21st century?” was too broad. I cannot possibly hope
to answer this question, much less in the time allotted to do so. So Leslie advised me to focus more on my
classroom and narrow my question. I have come up with a new question after
doing some research.
Saturday I read a great article called “Beautiful Brains”
from this October’s issue of National Geographic magazine. In it the author
talked about how teenage brains are evolutionarily programmed to be the way they
are to help them “leave the nest” (Dobbs, 2011). In this article,
Dobbs also reminds us of teen interests in “excitement, novelty, risk and the
company of peers” (Dobbs, 2011). I decided to
incorporate these interests into my question after reading the article.
Question: How are
teenage inclinations toward excitement, novelty and peer influence incorporated
into teaching art to my high school students? (I decided to leave out risk.)
Question Revised:
How are teenage interests incorporated into art instruction at Wayne Country
Day School?
If you have any suggestions, please feel free to make
them. I will post more about this later.
Work Cited:
Dobbs, D. (2011, October). Beautiful brains. National
Geographic , pp. 37-59.
Hi Carolyn,
ReplyDeleteI edited your post so it included the Research Reflection label for the correct week. Make sure each post has two labels:
1) Your name (which you are doing)
2) The research reflection week # label.
Thanks! Helps with sorting and reading for everyone, and grading for me.
Leslie
Thank you, Leslie.
ReplyDeleteI like the new question! it is more direct and is something more attainable to study. I also am having the same issue. I have to re-word my question to be more specific and something I can actually find by dong research. With the new question you can actually state ones that you are doing as an educator to help include student interests. You may want to include your student's opinions too on what are "their " interests. Good luck with this, and it sounds like a good idea!
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ReplyDeleteI now feel bad that my first comment was technical and I didn't address the content of your post. You are moving in a great direction. Your question is manageable and you will graduate! Cheers!
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