The Professional Artefact - an explanation

During the planning of my artecaft, I needed to take into consideration my audience. I had established that I was going to create a newspaper article due to the nature of my workplace. As a member of staff in a secondary school, there are often  newspapers found in the staff room. I grew up in a household of teachers and from my own experinece, I believe this to be an adequate means of communication to an academic body of workers.

My Critical Review contains the findings of my inquiry and I have been conscious to refrain from adding my own views, as best as possible. According to the WBS 3760 handbook, the Professional Artefact is the opportunity for you to 'defend your point of view'. With this in mind, I decided to create a newspaper secifically aimed at those who would choose to read a newspaper about Dance and Drama in education and named the paper ' The Creative Education'. All newspapers have a target audience in mind and one can expect to be 'swayed' towards the points of view of that paper, and mine is no different.

I found this process very enjoyable. As any newspaper reader would expect, I included headlines, images, text and graphs/tables. The text was much academic than the Critical Review and I included quotes from celebrities, which would entice the audience. (Even teachers read up on celebrity gossip!)

I took this opportunity to elaborate on an area that I could only touch on in the Critical Review due to the limitations of the word count. This was about lack of teacher training placements on the Schools Direct (Salaried) programme in Dance. This topic has had a direct effect on me and with the increased tuition fees, it is impossible for me to obtain a non-salaried placement. I was troubled to discover that there aren't any places in Britain on the Schools Direct (Salaried) programme in Dance. I created an article on this topic in my artefact, about  'Andrew Parsons', a made up character, who represented me. So as to keep all of my interviewees anonymous, I gave them all fake names, which was also fun.


I'm looking forward to being able to post my Professional Artefact once I have completed the course and been given permission.

In spite of the challenges ahead of me in terms of obtaining a placement for teacher training, I hope to be able to show my artefact to future employers to demonstrate my passion in Dance and Drama as subjects in their own right and be able to advise schools on the benefits they can give children to their overall education.