Update

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 Although these blog entries are not entirely perfect, I do feel better after writing a few of my thoughts down. Just airing my concerns is helping me define what they actually are and therefore able to make progress on them. After reading the handbook further I think I’m starting to identify what’s confusing me about, ‘what my practice is’. Maybe this will become clearer as I venture through the areas of learning but I was reading what is required in our end of module essay and it says ‘Linking prior learning to your professional practice today’ (Page 11). So is the definition of my professional practice, identifying what I’ve learnt in my past experiences? Or what I’m doing as a dancer today (which currently isn’t as much as I used to at the moment)? I’ve just been reading Sally’s blog post, which was an overview of what we discussed in our most recent Skype call. She said something which may help push me on the right track, which is ‘I reflected on my current practice vs my goal’; so maybe thinking about what I’m doing right now to achieve what I want to do once this pandemic is over is where I need to be?

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