Wednesday Oct 2nd - Module 3 Focus
Topic: What are you doing?
It is now Week 3 and according to my Gant Chart I created in Module 2, I should have made a start on:
· Literature research on Ritualistic Dances of Sri Lanka
· Document research on dance diaspora
· Completed gathering Sinhala translated literature
· 3rd week into making notes of key information used in Lit Review
· 3rd week into making notes of existing document research on dance identities being compared across diasporas
NB: I am conducting my research on different practises of Kandyan dance beyond Sri Lanka by reaching out to dance practitioners through open-ended-questionnaire through the social media networking platform I created @KandyanDancers.
See below for reference...
Following on from feedback from Module 2, I've made a start on my data gathering and so I've been receiving feedback from research participants. I've also been in contact with the @KandyanDancers online community in order to maximise participant options from different backgrounds/ countries.
I've purchased 3 books for my literature review and completed reading 1/3 during my commutes and free times this term. There's a lot of information I've gathered that I plan on including in the lit review from this - some ritualistic history related to Kandyan dance that I didn't even know about!
In terms of gathering data, I've been reading into some of the responses and it's been interesting to read the journeys of Kandyan dance practitioners outside Sri Lanka (so far there's been 2 responses). I realise I need to expect the unexpected, having sent out an open-ended questionnaire to participants when receiving their responses. This could potentially lead to me finding out things that I didn't even know would be useful to me.
This made me want to look into having to categorise information gathered from respondents and how - this was a thought I've exercised before but reading two responses already gave me an idea on how this might be best when it comes to analysis.
If anyone feels like this might be useful to them at this stage in Module 3, have a read from '5 tips to get you started' and really does help getting things started!
Also watched this video to give myself a quick recap of what it is I'm actually doing...Reckon these moments should definitely be included in my reflective essay!
Until Next Time,
Dils The Kandyan Dancer!
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