SOS on a Sunday Night!

After burying my head in the sand about beginning the planning of my professional enquiry, I decided to try to make some real progress on it tonight,
I thought about the reason I had been avoiding doing it, aside from the usual lack of time I realised that it was because I had no interest in what I was talking about! If I had lost interest in it already now how was I going to be able to talk about it until December!

It was time for a bit of hand holding from Paula, we had a skype conversation this evening which I found to be extremely helpful, Paula helped me to realise what it actually was that I was interested in, i'm not ready to give up the performing side of my career which is all i've ever known and loved to talk about teaching which is going to be my future career and in the grand scheme of it, I know very little about!

For me, at the moment teaching in primary schools is a job where I can use the skills I already have, however my end goal is to work in a senior school or a college, which is why i am doing this course to gain the skills needed to enable me to do this, so it did seem a bit daft to write about a teaching as a professional topic of my choice when it has only just come into my life.

So we have managed to home the subject back in to performing, I was telling Paula how I now am considered to be a retired dancer but I just cant let go of performing, this is what has lead me to the topic of my inquiry, why can't I give it up?

What does performance mean to trained individuals and how have they used it in their lives?

Could this have been a penny drop moment?

A little late in the day and I have a lot of work to do now to steer round my research into my new line of inquiry, I am planning on using the easter holidays as I have a bit more time of work to research some literature on what performance means to individuals.