Hi Jack and all

Yes, I have now found how to boost the sound quality on some of the Youtube
postings so I can hear the presenters!  What a treat. I can now put faces to
some of the 'disembodied voices' I've been interacting with over time. And
thanks so much to Jack and those of you who have allowed your explanations
to be internet-accessible.  I had found the previous system Jack was using
(from his website) didn't come across quickly or sometimes at all, and was
excluded from seeing and benefiting from this sharing, so Youtube is a great
step forward I think.  

Warm congratulations, Jean and team, on the ability St Mary's has now
gained, to accredit their own degrees.  From our discussions around New
Zealand when you were here, Jean, I well understand how important this
accreditation ability is for you and South African colleagues.

I am not sure how the AERA and ICTR conference symposia will proceed, and it
looks as though there's a solid body of educational contributors from this
discussion group presenting anyway, but if there was any benefit in my doing
a brief outline of invitational theory to add to the mix I'd be happy to do
so (obviously won't be there to present!)  I do note the use of the term
'inviting' or 'invitational' being picked up by contributors to the list
and, as I initially said, it's a theory that is easily accessible and
'clear' to a range of practitioners.  I think Purkey was clever and wise in
the terminology he used to present this theory - it is so everyday and
non-esoteric.

So all the best to all presenters preparing for these conferences, and I
look forward to continued richness of sharing across the world through this
list.

Warm regards to all and prayers for a better world in 2007 and beyond
Pip Bruce Ferguson

-----Original Message-----
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Subject: Re: Judging Educational Influences In Terms of World Leading
Standards of Judgement

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.