Hi Jack and all
You wrote: "I am uncertain at present how many participants in the e-seminar
would like to join me in exploring how we are enhancing the flow of
conviviality, love at work and social justice, but I am hoping that you will
let me know." I, for one, am very happy to contribute to this theme. I am
only learning through the most recent postings, of the notion of
conviviality as a value, but have always valued (and tried to promote in my
own practice) 'love at work and social justice'.
Peaceful thoughts to all from a New Zealand where summer FINALLY seems to be
coming!
Pip
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From: BERA Practitioner-Researcher
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jack
Whitehead
Sent: Friday, 15 December 2006 9:19 a.m.
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Subject: Judging Educational Influences In Terms of World Leading Standards
of Judgement
Pete writes: "I must try to connect the language to the embodied meaning
that might
lift these words off the page and give them a form of life that truly
corresponds to
the lives we lead and the values we express through those lives."
Elearnor writes: "For me, it is a loving educational relation , between
peers, between
teacher and student, or inwardly in spiritual practice, that enables my
learning. The
inclusional flowing relation crossing between boundaries becomes an
educational
influence, opens my mind, opens my eyes to see what I did not see before,
creates
confidence to grasp the new. "
I am persuaded by Eleanor's doctoral thesis on Love at Work
at
http://people.bath.ac.uk/edsajw/lohr.shtml
that Eleanor does what she claims in her Abstract when she says:
"I judge the worth of my action and its loving dimension in silent
reflective spiritual
practice. I also judge the worth of my action and its loving dimension in
the feedback
I get from others. I set criteria that focus on seeking harmony and
wholeness, and
which do not ignore challenge and difference. I argue that the creative
dynamism
arising from difference is an important component of love at work.
I provide evidence for my claim in an account of current practice, through
pictures,
drawings and a video clip, and it is further evidenced by the coherence of
my writing
and the rigorous application of my own criteria against which I judge the
worth of my
actions. My claim to truth can also be substantiated by my application of
method, and
by situating my inquiry firmly within a post-modern narrative."
In judging my educational influence with world leading standards of judgment
over
the course of this e-seminar I am holding Eleanor's meanings of love at work
as a
world leading standard of judgment. As with the video-clip of Moira and the
quality
of conviviality she expresses with her students and in her paper, I wish to
be
accountable, in my knowledge-creation, to enhancing the flow of both love at
work
and conviviality. Following Bernie Sullivan's lead in her living theory of a
practice of
social justice at http://www.jeanmcniff.com/bernieabstract.html I am also
holding
myself accountable, and ask you to hold me accountable, to enhancing the
flow of
social justice. I am uncertain at present how many participants in the
e-seminar
would like to join me in exploring how we are enhancing the flow of
conviviality, love
at work and social justice, but I am hoping that you will let me know. I am
also hoping
that you will share the values or standards of judgment or qualities of
discernment
you think we~i (following Yaakub) should be using in evaluating our
educational
influences in terms of world leading standards of judgment. To emphasise
the
importance of love at work here is the signature I usually use in my
e-mails:
Love Jack.
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When Martin Dobson, a colleague, died in 2002 the last thing he said to me
was 'Give my Love to the Department'. In the 20 years I'd worked with
Martin it was his loving warmth of humanity that I recall with great life
affirming pleasure and I'm hoping that in Love Jack we can share this
value of common humanity.
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