Flipping my perspective
After weeks of data collection, interviews, and researching further into emerging themes and new questions, I've spent the weekend thoroughly planning out my literature review essay. I'm making sure my plan is detailed and has exactly what I want to write in each section so that when I come to write, it's just the matter of forming my thoughts and plan into sentences and piecing it altogether.
My research has been based around looking at the importance of nutritional knowledge in ballet and how/if that relates to dancers being considered athletes. I've managed to interview many professional dancers, along with a few that are now in the sports or personal training industry, and as mentioned I have been looking at whether dancers can be considered athletes. After coming across an article from the British Journal of Educational Studies, Peter J Arnold (1990, pp.160-179) speculates
"Whether or not sport itself can be regarded as an art?"
I've been looking for sports-people's perspectives around my inquiry topic but reading this article has shown that my question can be completely flipped and researched from many different angles, just like the all the themes that have emerged from my data collection. Instead of looking at if dancers can be considered athletes, looking at whether sports people can be considered artists.
I'm hoping that I can manage to piece together my data and produce an articulate literature review within the next few days. I've written down a few prominent themes, given them a highlighter colour, then gone through my data and highlighted where these themes emerge. Doing this has made it easier to sort through my data when planning the essay.
If anyone has any other tips or an update on how they're getting on just drop a comment below!
My research has been based around looking at the importance of nutritional knowledge in ballet and how/if that relates to dancers being considered athletes. I've managed to interview many professional dancers, along with a few that are now in the sports or personal training industry, and as mentioned I have been looking at whether dancers can be considered athletes. After coming across an article from the British Journal of Educational Studies, Peter J Arnold (1990, pp.160-179) speculates
"Whether or not sport itself can be regarded as an art?"
I've been looking for sports-people's perspectives around my inquiry topic but reading this article has shown that my question can be completely flipped and researched from many different angles, just like the all the themes that have emerged from my data collection. Instead of looking at if dancers can be considered athletes, looking at whether sports people can be considered artists.
I'm hoping that I can manage to piece together my data and produce an articulate literature review within the next few days. I've written down a few prominent themes, given them a highlighter colour, then gone through my data and highlighted where these themes emerge. Doing this has made it easier to sort through my data when planning the essay.
If anyone has any other tips or an update on how they're getting on just drop a comment below!
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