Theories and Framework
Sunday's monthly MAPP discussion saw us reflect on the subject of theories and framework, not just in our learning or professional practice but as our lives as a whole.
Theories are a part of everything we do and on reflection it seems as we become more experienced in our field, we come into contact with many more theories that we can either choose to adopt or strengthen the use of our existing theories. Continued exposure to and questioning of different theories can lead to a growth in the framework that one adopts in their daily practice.
Theories are a part of everything we do and on reflection it seems as we become more experienced in our field, we come into contact with many more theories that we can either choose to adopt or strengthen the use of our existing theories. Continued exposure to and questioning of different theories can lead to a growth in the framework that one adopts in their daily practice.
But what defines a framework and how large a part of our lives does a framework encompass?
We discussed that frameworks can cover huge areas of our lives and that the frameworks we see in our everyday lives can relate to and be part of even larger frameworks, for example: the world we live in could be classed as a framework and within that you have much smaller frameworks such as evolution or human development.; similarly to a child who is learning dance for the first time has a relatively small framework and may not be able to see the complete objective of a task, a dance teacher my be working to a much larger framework or using many theories to encorporate different frameworks that he/she has experienced through years of practice. A certain framework could be that you choose not to stick to any one framework but to encorporate many frameworks in a neo-liberal approach.
This made me descend deep into thought and pose this question:
What is the relationship between theories and framework?
Adesola described her view as this:
Your framework being similar to the roof of a huge cathedral. This cathedral is lined with different patterns of gold leaf which could be seen as the various theories that you draw on to build this framework. As the gold is iridescent it is difficult to see anything else but the theories you draw on but it is only when you scratch away at the surface is the true extent of your framework is shown.
But as practitioners do we always encompass all the theories known to us into one framework or are the theories we learn and come into contact with more like a common thread that may link us to different frameworks?
Broad overview,
outline, or skeleton of interlinked items which supports a particular
approach to a specific objective, and serves as a guide that can be
modified as required by adding or deleting items.
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Read more: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/framework.html
Broad overview,
outline, or skeleton of interlinked items which supports a particular
approach to a specific objective, and serves as a guide that can be
modified as required by adding or deleting items.
Read more: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/framework.html
Read more: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/framework.html
The difficulty I have found is recognising the frameworks already engrained within us, that exist already in our bodies. Questioning these and reshaping them in academic language - words slowly, rather than movement non-verbally.
ReplyDeleteInteresting words Jesse. Yes I do think we have many frameworks. In my blog I've likened it to a tree. As I'm writing this to you I'm also thinking of a spiders web! Each individual piece is a framework on its own but liked together its a solid and beautiful structure. I'm a firm believer that the more we extend our framework and 'find' more theories the better teacher/dancer we become.
ReplyDeleteReally enjoyed our Sunday discussion about theories and framework. the day we are born we slide into a framework unknown to us but there in our senses, we grow to fit into a framework of our culture, identities, our environment and accordingly adapt. I question did the theories come before this frame work or did the framework give birth to the theories, its interesting as i feel the relationship is so intertwined and we keep outgrowing and regrowing into new frameworks and theories keep evolving as we keep experiencing and documenting as we go along, exactly how we keep discovering new frameworks in our dance our styles our teaching methods......
ReplyDeleteI find the notion of frameworks as children extremely interesting as well...children as young as 4 or 5 in a dance classroom you tell them to dance and they already produce imitated and sometimes even stereotypical movements of what they conceive to be "dancing". From that I gather that as soon as we start forming ideas, we are forming frameworks of diverse origins. We do perpetually build upon these.
ReplyDeleteReally interesting topic and framework and towards the end i had a better understanding of what this means. As mentioned in this skype discussion i find it really difficult at the moment connecting my framework with theory and recently thought about being more critical than descriptive which is really challenging for me. After reading Babbie, 2010 book called "The practice of social research" I have came to terms that it is ok to not always agree with schlors and that i shouldnt be afraid of sharing my opinion or disagreeing. Please have a look at my recent blog on ethical approaches and reflection. thank you https://warburtontara.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteTara Warburton