Some good news today. The symposium proposal that Jean submitted for the
International Conference of Teacher Research (ICTR) with contributions from Jean,
Maggie, Yvonne and me has been accepted and will be held on the 14th April 2007
in Chicago, just after the presentations at AERA. It has direct relevance to our e-
seminar on standards of judgment as it is on:
Setting new standards: explaining how we exercise our educational leadership for
sustainable social transformation. You can access the successful proposal at:
http://www.jackwhitehead.com/ictr05/jmjwmfycICTR07prop.htm
I'm hoping that the influence of the insights we are sharing here, in the e-seminar,
will be clear in the ICTR symposium and that by April we shall be well on the way to
clarifying and sharing our understandings of world leading standards of judgment.
In relation to these standards Moira has responded to the video-clip of Maggie:
“This seemed crystal clear to me in Margaret Farren's round-table talk. It seemed to
me that the group was almost like one person. People talking, interrupting, flowing
with each other's concerns, interpreting, articulating, but never, (at least that's how it
appeared to me) intrusively interrupting, or inappropriately speaking, controlling and
giving ideas. Always a flow between people, through body-language, gestures etc,
which made this space, as a viewer, so invitational, so comfortable, so smooth. I
could almost see what Alan Rayner is talking about with inclusionality. Something
distinct and amorphous, bounded and yet flexible. It seemed, for those moment, an
ideal educational setting because it was so flowing and smooth. All engaged on
moving forward and yet each person distinctly themselves. I'd like to have been in
that space. I can see such potential for developing those kinds of spaces in
education, in the name of education.”
I'm hoping that we can explore further the idea that we are co-creating world leading
standards of judgement in contributing to a world of educational quality. I do agree
with Je kan about the need to see more of what we are doing in practice.
If Marian, you can find a way of getting the video-clips from your doctorate onto a
streamed server, I think we shall see the meanings of living standards of judgement
emerging from your inclusional and responsive practice. I'd like to give some priority
to this because of the significance of your doctorate and I'll help in whatever way I
can. I also believe that more video-clips of what we are doing will help to show living
meanings of our embodied values and standards of judgment. Alan's idea of
inclusionality, as a relationally dynamic awareness of space and boundaries that is
connective, reflexive and co-creative, could help us to articulate our understandings.
I also think that in exploring Marian's emerging living theory of inclusional and
responsive practice there is the possibility that we might agree that we understand
Marian's standards as world leading standards of judgment.
I have added. to the video-collage and visual narrative I posted earlier, two video-
clips of colleagues at St. Mary's University College talking about their practitioner-
research and of Jean reporting to her colleagues at St. Mary's on the action research
she is supporting in global contexts, with a brief commentary, at
http://www.jackwhitehead.com/jack/jwyoutubeimages3.htm
(Congratulations to colleagues from St Mary's University College in becoming a
University College with the power to award their own degrees)
Pip - it would be good to know if you could hear the sound OK on these clips.
As we explore the constitution of world leading standards of judgment in educational
practitioner-researcher I do hope that you will find it possible to post video-clips with
your visual narratives on a streaming server such as YouTube. I know I'm convinced
that such visual narratives offer an appropriate form of representation for
communicating the educational influences in learning of the expression of embodied
values, skill and understandings in educational relationships! However, I could be
mistaken in my conviction so do please tell me in you think I am. Do the video-clips
show individuals in their educational practices, expressing their values and skills in
ways that are contributing to a world of educational quality? If we make such
assessments aren't we using standards of judgment that we believe to be world
leading? I'm suggesting that our visual narratives enable the lived expression of
our values, skills and understandings to be connected to analytic frameworks in the
creation of living theories, and that these enable the significance of what is being
done to be communicated.
Love Jack.
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