Skype call 3rd April 2016

A great Skype call today. I've been doing lots of group interviews over the last couple of months but work has been so crazy that I haven't been on top of reading. I'm going to defer until January so I can get the most out of this journey. I was asking the question about how people have decided on their artefacts?  Julie said to try to think about how the people I want to reach to tell them about my research would be able to hear it. How will they be able to access the information in the easiest way? Adesola was saying how can you show the process and how you did it? It's another way to show what you've learnt rather than in an academic way, not being locked into the university world.
It's not just been work that has been crazy this last term but my youngest son has been studying for year 6 SAT's which the school are piling on the pressure for. We keep telling him that the tests actually mean nothing for him as he already has his secondary school, but he puts pressure on himself. Although for my research I'm looking at GCSE girls and how dancing and continuing their dance during their GCSE's has an effect, I'm becoming more and more aware of what an exam testing orientated society we live in and if a child doesn't conform to where the government says they should be at a certain time they are labelled.  Surely this isn't right. We all learn in different ways and at different times and we are all good at different things. Why are we telling people there is only one way?
Questions and finding answers. The more I study and read and look at dance and life the more I realise I don't know much, although I thought I did! We may ask questions and not get a definite answer or there may be more than 1 answer. Society generally tells us there is an answer and it's right or wrong. Does this lead back to the exam society? Are we trained froma young age to think like this when actually life isn't always like this? Trying to retrain your brain  may therefore be hard but maybe this is what needs to be done in order to accept what we know to be true, we learn through experience and through our bodies not just through text books. Maybe this is why when I'm talking to people about what I'm learning it seems to start to make more sense.
What do you think?