Moving forwards - Frameworks and beyond proving theories

thoughts from the skype discussion 
Sunday 1st October, 5pm 

The discussion started by revisiting the ideas of knowledge and experience from module 1 - knowing and not knowing. The awareness of your own position in a framework or whether you are the kind of person trying to prove or gather answers. Creativity is not always looked upon by outsiders as academic. Sometimes we take for granted the knowledge or unspoken understanding within the Arts that acknowledges that not everything can be contextualised through academia. Trying to prove using a binary ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ from a positivist or scientific perspective does not translate when looking at the embodiment of movement or indeed reflection as there are no right or wrong answers. Instead the translation of experience through critical reflection can help us explain our choices, methods and own theoretical perspective and frameworks in the same way that our moral background influences our actions and our personality in everyday life. This poses the following questions:

What role do the frameworks and literature have in order to move beyond proof?

What frameworks do you work in and what theoretical perspectives do you support / or influence your practice? 

How aware are you of the frameworks that you work from? 

There is a feeling of tension with the world we live in and a desire to prove everything In a scientific way. Dance is not like this.

What are frameworks?

Frameworks underpin something. How each person thinks, feels and experiences a movement maybe different but it leads to the same result. Different approaches can lead to the same conclusion or result. 

We need to acknowledge these different frameworks the same way as teaching methods between teachers are different

What does the word framework mean to you? Why do you think this? Where does this view come from? What constitutes a framework?

A series of thoughts, ideas, theories and perspectives which form a process to either prove a theory or pose further question. This depends on the positivist or non positivist approach to the research.


I will endeavour to explore the ‘why’ in my journal, in terms of my natural tendency to want to know the answers or have all the facts rather then take a step back and accept unanswered questions as part of the process. 

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