My initial thought when I hear the word scholarship is academic achievement and finding the right answer. I personally love searching for the one correct answer and finding success in that way. As a scholar, I love learning more about music education and 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. 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, as well as through interactions and discussions on Twitter.
However, I've come to understand that scholarship goes beyond finding a correct answer. It actually should lead to more questions. Scholarship is engaging with the resources around you (i.e. books, articles, peers, faculty) and allowing them to stimulate curiosity to ask more thoughtful questions and seek more answers. This idea of scholarship sparking creativity and curiosity clicked for me during my Honors Capstone Project. I learned so much during the initial background research portion, but after my project and data analysis was completed, I realized I had more questions and more research to be answered. As a future educator, I hope to never run out of questions and to always be looking out for answers. 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
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