Thanks Je Kan - just accessed your evidence-based explanation of your educational
influence in your own learning and your Abstract on a scholarship of enquiry.
Looking forward to the review phase when we seek to improve our understandings
of the criteria used by practitioner-researchers to assess the quality of their research.
Love Jack.
A Scholarship of Enquiry
This thesis is submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of
Bath for the degree of Master of Arts
JEKAN ADLER-COLLINS
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ABSTRACT
This dissertation is a self-reflective action research enquiry where I examine forms of
my knowing and my claims to know, through the methodology of a critical enquiry to
my reflective story.
My story represents a journey of several inter-woven strands of my "I", those of
soldier, nurse, Buddhist priest, teacher and researcher. This journey is held up to
critical examination and reflection over a 5 year period of completing a Masters
Degree in Education.
I have chosen the medium of story to make explicit my values to the reader and
show how traumatic life events can be transcended, re-examined and turned to the
positive through engaging with finding the values of my "I", in terms of creating my
living educational theory.
I engage with the educational issues of the day, focusing around research
methodology, claims to know, representing forms of knowledge and scholarship, its
validation and the tensions these issues bring into my research and practice. As part
of the process I struggle with finding a form of knowledge, which allows me to hold
my fundamental values while seeking academic accreditation.
My story weaves a path of learning as I move into and out of phases of confusion
and tension, towards a new understanding, changing and modifying my
understanding of my "I" as a result of the learning and insights achieved.
The telling of this story is set within the changing shape and form of education policy
and politics within academia, as it responds to the challenges presented by the new
forms of knowledge represented by the evolving forms of new technology.
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