Learning and Reflection... A Reflection!
Hey... It's been a while, with lots of things going on a project and personal wise. Which has actually made me realize just how good us 'artists' are at juggling many things. I really think part of my practice is the art of multi-tasking, time management, and transferable skills. Also worrying that I haven't been able to commit to 'university work' as such but being aware that I am actually 'doing my practice' while I am not sat down at my desk; for example in Jenifer Moons 'A Handbook of Reflective & Experimental Learning' she writes "when terms are applied informal situations, we tend to forget their relevance to the activities of everyday life....learning is learning from experience".
Jenifer Moons book has inspired me to perhaps use a journal in my everyday life to document my learnings, perhaps that is something I can now start calling my practice- jotting down ideas/musings/ thoughts.
Interestingly I noticed there is a link between using an old technique such as journal/ diary writing when I was younger about school, boys and parties and now using it as a tool for my practice; and that always as an actor you are tested to use your learnings or teachings and asked to put them into a new experience or context. For example; I am used to being in front of the camera and learning lines and recently with more presenting work I am tested to do just this but to mold it into a different form being 'myself' on camera, not a character and delivering my lines down the camera directly.
Also with recent voice-over work; my learnings from the radio class and recording my voice reel and actually putting it into practice for the 'real thing' but looking as if 'I always do this' and I know what is going on, even if I don't really!
So I think this is one of the 'Tools' of an Actor - Learning in different ways an using the experiences and teachings.
It is interesting thinking about learning in regards to my practice because it is all so different, there is very specific learning ie; using social media to promote 'me as my business' and 'analyzing a piece of Shakespearian text'. There are big differences from the basic - you teach, I learn, I do and as Jennifer Moon put it 'to those activities that involve some 'knowing how' and some 'knowing that'.
This course is definitely challenging me in the sense of 'learning to learn' which will hopefully widen and broaden my ability to put experiences in my practice into a process or idea that can be used again. Learning is not just about the accumulation of it but has two distinct features; "When we learn cognitive structure is flexible with the potential to always change... and it guides what we choose to pay attention to and how we make meanings of the material of learning' (Bowden & Marton 1998)
So the more we learn on the job or read the better we find we are at learning and therefore putting into Practice.
Jenifer Moons book has inspired me to perhaps use a journal in my everyday life to document my learnings, perhaps that is something I can now start calling my practice- jotting down ideas/musings/ thoughts.
Interestingly I noticed there is a link between using an old technique such as journal/ diary writing when I was younger about school, boys and parties and now using it as a tool for my practice; and that always as an actor you are tested to use your learnings or teachings and asked to put them into a new experience or context. For example; I am used to being in front of the camera and learning lines and recently with more presenting work I am tested to do just this but to mold it into a different form being 'myself' on camera, not a character and delivering my lines down the camera directly.
Also with recent voice-over work; my learnings from the radio class and recording my voice reel and actually putting it into practice for the 'real thing' but looking as if 'I always do this' and I know what is going on, even if I don't really!
So I think this is one of the 'Tools' of an Actor - Learning in different ways an using the experiences and teachings.
It is interesting thinking about learning in regards to my practice because it is all so different, there is very specific learning ie; using social media to promote 'me as my business' and 'analyzing a piece of Shakespearian text'. There are big differences from the basic - you teach, I learn, I do and as Jennifer Moon put it 'to those activities that involve some 'knowing how' and some 'knowing that'.
This course is definitely challenging me in the sense of 'learning to learn' which will hopefully widen and broaden my ability to put experiences in my practice into a process or idea that can be used again. Learning is not just about the accumulation of it but has two distinct features; "When we learn cognitive structure is flexible with the potential to always change... and it guides what we choose to pay attention to and how we make meanings of the material of learning' (Bowden & Marton 1998)
So the more we learn on the job or read the better we find we are at learning and therefore putting into Practice.
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