Dear Jack/All

re.  I'm
hoping that as you read Sarah's final draft for the BERA 04 Symposium and the
paper I presented that you will have a strong feeling of ethically appropriate
behaviour in both our writings.

This is a rather misleading Jack, isn't it ... there was later correspondence
and you were very unethical in how you related to me - but let's move on now.

I do hope you like the web-based snapshot about our work in supporting Guyuan
and there is one very special outcome of this seminar - we are talking again.

Love and respect,
Book review soon,

Sarah
-- 
Sarah Fletcher
http://www.TeacherResearch.net



Quoting Jack Whitehead <[log in to unmask]>:

> When I experience myself as a living contradiction in the sense of holding
> together
> two mutually exclusive opposites such as 'I am acting ethically/I am not
> acting
> ethically', I seek to move to live more fully the values in 'I am acting
> ethically'. As I do
> this, I clarify for myself the meanings of the ethical principles that help
> to give
> meaning and purpose to my life in education and my educational
> knowledge-creation. I hope that you experience me holding myself accountable
> to
> these principles, in the living educational theory that emerges from my
> practitioner
> research, in public research forums such as this.
>
> Through this  present writing I feel a resolution emerging in my  living
> contradiction
> of  'I am acting ethically/I am not acting ethically' in relation to the
> paper I presented
> at BERA 04 on
>
> Do the values and living logics I express in my educational relationships
> carry the
> hope of Ubuntu for the future of humanity?
>
> This paper was presented at the BERA 04 Symposium 16 September, in
> Manchester, on: "How Are We Contributing To A New Scholarship Of Educational
> Enquiry Through Our Pedagogisation Of Postcolonial Living Educational
> Theories In
> The Academy?"
>
> You can access it:
> at http://www.jackwhitehead.com/jwbera04d.pdf
> You can also access it from:
> http://www.bath.ac.uk/~edsajw/writing.shtml
>
> I think the quality of  Sarah's and my own ethical practice can be felt in
> the final draft
> paper of the 6th September that Sarah prepared for presentation to the BERA
> Symposium and has asked us to read, but not share outside our e-seminar at:
>
>
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0506&L=bera-practitioner-resear
> cher&T=0&O=A&X=1E95F36F290667E81B&Y=edsajw%40bath.ac.uk&P=7816
>
> (You may have to copy this url into your browser because it is longer than
> one line)
>
> In preparing my own BERA 04 paper, I circulated to my co-presenters four
> drafts in
> the weeks before the presentation. Because of the sensitive nature of the
> content of
> my own paper, I was particularly concerned to have Sarah's confirmation that
> where
> I referred directly to her that what I was saying was valid. I received this
> confirmation
> on the 8th September with no other criticisms of the paragraph which has been
> offered to the symposium as evidence of my unethical behaviour:
>
> "To: Jack Whitehead <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed,  8 Sep 2004 11:13:04 +0100
> Subject: Re: Friday's gathering/4th Draft of paper for Symposium
>
>
> ......I wonder if you can say this - it works for me as a post-colonial
> reflection;
>
> I didn't explain to Sarah why I felt so compelled to work from home while she
> vented her anger. I didn't appreciate that in moving away I was increasing
> her
> isolation and vulnerability to attack.  As we reflect on the colonialism that
> temporarily marred our relationship, I see that isolating the colonised, as
> we
> seek to protect ourselves from the expression of their suffering, increases
> it.
>
> yes - this says what I need it to say - let's offer our learning in your
> draft! "
>
> As I look at Sarah's final draft for the Symposium of the 6th September and
> Sarah's
> response to my fourth draft of the 8th September I return to the pleasure I
> felt in both
> our papers and the belief that I acted ethically in the writing of the paper
> I presented
> at BERA.   My feeling of living contradiction was in reviewing the evidence
> in Sarah's
> claims in some of her postings to this e-seminar that 'I had not acted
> ethically'.   I'm
> hoping that as you read Sarah's final draft for the BERA 04 Symposium and the
> paper I presented that you will have a strong feeling of ethically
> appropriate
> behaviour in both our writings.
>
> I also hope that I am not deluding myself in thinking that  this posting is a
> gentle and
> polite response to those other postings to our e-seminar that refer to my
> ethics.
>
> I'm also hoping that this response is a contribution to holding open a safe,
> pleasurable and interesting space for educational enquiries of the quality
> that
> Margarida is asking for, and Pete is explicitly seeking to promote in the
> thread 'Start
> of the Review Process'.  I've just read Branko's contribution on  'How do you
> assess
> the quality of your practitioner research?' in the thread on 'Questions 2 and
> 3 of the
> Review Stage'  and it evokes the pleasure of recognition of a life being
> lived well in
> the service of education.
>
> Love Jack.
>