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7 Responses to the Research Inquiry

7.1 Feedback Responses: Breakdown According to Course

From the total of 122 participants who had been approached, there were 55 responses to the research inquiries.235 Participants had taken clowning courses within the frameworks of the following programs:

English Week (1997–2005) 62 inquiries, 29 responses

Baltic Seminar (2003) 28 inquiries, 11 responses

English Fortnight (1999, 2000) 22 inquiries,10 responses

Witten Seminar 2005 10 inquiries, 3 responses

Witten Seminar 2003 1 response

Schloss Hamborn 2000 1 response

7.1.1 Breakdown of Responses According to Gender

44 women and 11 men responded. This discrepancy reflects the substantially higher percentage of women who attended the courses. In the English Week, almost two thirds of the participants were women. In the Baltic Seminar there were 26 women and two men. In the English Fortnight of the 22 people who could be contacted, 19 were women.

7.1.2 Breakdown of Responses According to Country

The breakdown of responses according to the country in which the teachers worked is as follows:

English Week:

Germany 25

Austria: 2

Switzerland 1

Japan: 1

English Fortnight:

Germany 4

Holland 2

Luxemburg 1

Japan 1

Israel 1

Sweden 1

Baltic Seminar

Ukraine 2

Russia 2

Finland 2

Estonia 2

Latvia 1

Lithuania 1

Hungary 1

Witten Courses

Germany 2

The Netherlands 1

Scotland 1

Schloss Hamborn 1998,1999

Germany 1

7.1.3 Summary

In total, 122 former participants of Gladwell’s clowning courses were contacted either in person, by mail, or by e-mail. The total of 55 responses yields a response rate of 45 %. Considering the fact that the inquiry was not formulated as a questionnaire which could be quickly filled out, but as an open letter which, in most cases, led to far more sustained writing, this level of response is noteworthy. The possible reasons for this rate of responses will be discussed in Chapter 8 in the discussion and evaluation of what the participants wrote.