New term and new course

Hi all, hope you had good Christmases and New Years and some well deserved time off thinking.

I've had a rather bizarre start of not really feeling I want to continue with the MA. I'm not entirely sure where it came from, I had a difficult time at a college I taught at up until Christmas and I think its really made me question what I want in my future.

After lots of talking it through with various people I decided I wasn't going to do it. At the moment my work is mainly related to health, exercise and well being so it just wasn't sitting right with me to talk entirely about teaching.

I spoke to Helen about it and she recommended I move across to the Dance specialism MA, where I could focus in on those things and interlink them with dance. I've made the move and I'm much more excited about the research prospects than I was previously.

However I still don't think I'm entirely out the water here. Reading through the module 2 handbook has made me realise the scope and depth of knowledge I need to find to produce something good during this module. And I've been struggling with the terminology a lot!

I wondered how you all let the layers of learning wash over you? Do you read things repeatedly? or take breaks from it and go back? or research it online, ask others?

It would be great to start chatting again and also to hear if you guys have some ideas for your research proposals!

Have good days xxxx

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