This month's Sunday Discussion groups focused on the notions of Knowing and Learning. Discussions in the first group covered how we feel we (as dance teachers) prepare and respond to our student's needs for knowledge, how we facilitate learning and how we observe learning as developmental over time as we see student's progression. There was some discussion around how influenced we are in our learning from the teaching we experienced as students, but some gaps here perhaps between the experiences of us as learners and how we are positioning our students learning? Adesola is talking more about this through her blog from today.
The thoughts around learning as a process and knowing as fluid interested me most here.
How might we see knowing as transformational?
How might we use reflection in learning?
What do you think?
The second discussion group veered more towards teaching/learning and assessment and the relationships between these in different contexts, different parts of the world. Something that struck me in these conversations was the sense of wanting to nurture and help students grow and develop autonomy in their learning through their dancing, while (as teachers) feeling the external pressures of the systems of the school, government, and a general lack of agency these may put on that learning. I wonder how we - as artists (teacher, learners, people) respond to this. I wonder how we might foster 'bettter', more creative relationships between the inner rhythms, our inner dance and the environment that shapes that. What might that look and feel like if we were to bring these conversations around teaching, learning and assesment back to the body and pause to listen...
Love to hear your thoughts and continue the conversations through your own blogs...
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