Dear David,
Thank you so much for your reply - I hadn't logged the quotation from Candide in
my mind when I read it - definitely a text to revisit now! Just to explain a
little more re Creative Partnerships - they don't fund research - we 'won'
substantial funding from the TTA/TDA to assist with teacher research at Bath
Spa. Creative Partnerships in my case pay for me to be a research mentor so
teachers who want to undertake small classroom based projects (NOT necessarily
for accreditation) can have support. I think it seems to be a great scheme as
the teachers at Bitterne can have funding for other creative partners in their
particular area of interest eg actors, dancers, teachers - no set parameters.
There are 25 Creative Partnerships centres, with many more planned in future.
Warm regards,
Sarah
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Sarah Fletcher
http://www.TeacherResearch.net
Quoting David Wilson <[log in to unmask]>:
> Sarah: Thank you for your comments too. I'm glad you agree about
> applicability and relevance - my original message was in some way a
> response to a degree of feel-good ivory-towerism and to the imposition of
> unrealistic validity and rigour barriers on schooteacher-researchers I
> perceived (I expect wrongly) in some of the forum contributions. I'm not a
> fan of the "vision thing" and I'm still rather fond of Voltaire's "Candide"
> where we read "Travaillons sans philosopher" - let's work without
> philosophising. Thanks for your generous offer of web space for any
> teacher-researchers needing somewhere to publish their findings. I've come
> across Creative Partnerships and admire the opportunities they offer
> schools to examine their own practice. It may well break down those
> barriers between teaching and research at whole-school level. I'm not so
> sure how it will affect the individual practitioner like myself, who more
> often than not finances his own projects to make a quick start and to
> divest himself of the pressures that outside agencies and external funding
> can bring.
>
> David Wilson
> Harton Technology College, South Shields
> http://www.specialeducationalneeds.com/
>
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