APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY

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APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY
Professor Di Marks-Maran
Dr Sue Fergy Visiting Professor
Principal Lecturer
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Our Presentation

• Context
• Method or mindset
• Challenges posed by Appreciative Inquiry

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Context

• The APPL Project
• Academic, Professional and Personal Learning
• Introducing learning sets into a diverse cohort
  of undergraduate students on a vocational
  programme
• Aim to promote self-awareness and deep learning

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AI Questions (1)

• When did I do well? Asking participants to think
  of a highpoint experience a time when they felt
  most alive, engaged and creative
• What was happening at the time to make this
  excellence possible
• What was the condition that made it a high point?

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AI Questions (2)

• What have I learned from this situation
  /experience that might guide my future practice?
• What things in your programme are really helping
  you learn / succeed?
• What do you most value about yourself as a
  student?

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AI Questions (3)

• Imagine it is 2008, you awake from a 2 year
  sleep. As you look around, you realise that
  everything about your educational environment is
  exactly as you wish it to be. What is different
  and how do you know?
• What has worked well for you?

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AI

• Method or Mindset?
• Why AI?
• What makes a research method?

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Challenges posed by AI

• Data Analysis
• Mindset (if not a method, can it be attached?)
• Effecting local change versus generalisable
  knowledge
• Achieving a balance in AI
• (only researching the good bits?)

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Our questions

• Is AI a research method or a mindset?
• AI would be a research method if.