Last module I wrote a blog called 'Educating the creative heart', where I asked everyone what they thought made a good dance teacher. I was so interested in everyone's opinions and decided to incorporate this within my questionnaires as a 'wrap it up' question.
This has left me with so many describing words. When I spoke to Sam about this in my tutorial, he advised me to create a word cloud, which I thought might be nice to share...
To create this, I used an online programme that changes the size of words depending on the emphasis. Every time a description was repeated in my data, I enhanced the size by one. This has helped me visually see what qualities were mentioned more frequently.
I have learnt that everyone has their own opinion of the ideal dance teacher based on their own experiences. There are so many different words because no two experiences are the same. There is no textbook definition of the ideal dance teacher, however, a successful teacher could have any of the qualities listed above. I am now looking for a way of turning this data into something meaningful.
The qualities that were repeated more frequently (as you can see) were encouraging, positive, caring, kind, and fun. I am wondering why more participants have described the ideal teacher to have such qualities of emotional intelligence over technical teaching qualities such as being knowledgeable, adaptable, and firm. Is there an external factor that has hindered people's opinions of teachers in dance education? This has really interested me and I will be looking for literature to explore this more.
I would love to hear your thoughts on this.
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