Choosing a Topic & Developing a Research Question
Upon embarking on DAN4630's Research Inquiry , I decided to do a little bit of brainstorming on my reflective journal, to figure out a topic that could potentially both fit the program's outline & also be something that I truly was interested in and invested in. I found a super-helpful step-by-step youtube video by Oregon's School's Library, which truly helped me develop a valid "work-in-progress" research question that I could start working with. If you want to check out their video and try out their process, you can find the link by clicking here . The first step to develop my research topic idea was to brainstorm an initial list of topics that could be related both to my professional practice and to the MAPP Dance Technique Pedagogy Program. Here is what my initial list looked like: I then selected a couple of topics that felt like they were 'talking' to me more, and developed a new list of possible topics , by brainstorming all of the su...