As a scholar, I love learning more about music education, as well as making connections with it to other content. I enjoy reading and intaking new information, and then summarizing the content to share with others beneficially. For example, I searched the web for useful apps to use and wrote descriptions, pros, and cons for them so that music teachers could easily choose which resources they wanted to use without having to shuffle through superfluous information (http://davinamiaw.weebly.com/scholarship/app-hunt). I also like to reflect and ponder on my research and readings, which helps me understand the content and form meaningful questions that will further my scholarship. I have engaged in reflection through books (http://davinamiaw.weebly.com/scholarship/chapter-1-hammel-and-hourigan), as well as through interactions and discussions on Twitter (http://davinamiaw.weebly.com/scholarship/reflect-on-twitter-discussion).
Since coming to JMU, I’ve learned how to better find and use resources that are available to me. I know how to obtain books from the libraries, as well as through the Interlibrary Loan, and am more effective in how I use key words in my searches. I am comfortable asking the librarians at JMU about different resources too; they provide so much good information because they are librarians with a specific subject concentration. By the time I start student teaching, my hope is that I will have spent even more time exploring and reflecting on all the material I have read. Another hope is that I can find thought provoking articles on my own, rather than being given them, and form my own questions and reflections from them and even write my own articles and opinions. I wish to engage my future students in stimulating conversations about what I have read and what they are reading. I can practice engagement with others by presenting my research in conferences, like VMEA, and creating my own informational posters. Comments are closed.
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Davina MiawOn this page, I will present examples of my scholarship in the form of reflective essays and philosophical assignments. Archives
November 2019
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