communication of ideas

Todays evening Skype discussion was really interesting, with the focus on communicating ideas.

We have been talking about the process of finding your own voice, either your academic voice or as a teacher.

During the conversation I noticed, that to me there are three aspects that can be considered in communicating ideas: the idea itself, the "audience"or who we are communicating to, and then the "I", who is communicating. All three are embedded in a context. This can be an academic, or any other context.

Another topic has been the question of the "I" in the research process. That is also a question I have been thinking about a lot in relation to the analysis of data. How much of our selves do we put into the research or in an academic essay. As this course is based on learning from experience, I think the "I" is a big part of the research. That is where our embodied knowledge comes from, our source in a way. I think we can not take our selves out of the process, or look at something or analyse something from a completely neutral point of view, but I feel its maybe through becoming aware and being more conscious of your own frame, during the process of analysis, that allows us to listen to and discover and explore other perspectives emerging from the data. So maybe its not so much about being neutral, but about the awareness that there are many ways to look at something.

But all of this is still theory right now in Module Two and I am very curious to see how it will all translate into actually carrying out the research process in Module three. For this reason it was really great to listen to all the people from Module three talking about their inquiry process.