Hi Marie,
I am glad that the postings and links to presentation, article, learning
artefacts, Masters and PhD research work is extending your own understandings
as you create your living educational theory. Great that you were able to
connect with Joanne work and especially her use of video. Joanne is a learning
support teacher and designed, developed and evaluated the learning support
website as part of the coursework for the masters degree. She is interesting
in further exploring ways to engage her pupils in active learning and help
them benefit from the use of technology to enhance their learning process
in the area of creative writing. I am sure she would be interested in joining
this e-seminar as she moves into her dissertation research. I will also
pass on your email to her - if that is okay?
Bye for now.
Maggie
>-- Original Message --
>Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:05:33 +0000
>Reply-To: BERA Practitioner-Researcher <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Marie Huxtable <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Research based practice
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>Hi Maggie
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>I have just enjoyed your posting and reading your article again. Your posting
>is enabling me to build on Jean's and Jack's postings, and my other reading
>as I work to extend my understandings of living educational theory. The
insights
>you offer through your work, and an indication of the commitment over time
>it took to generate your own living educational theory and produce an account
>of such quality is both instructive and inspiring.
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>The video of the children - for me 'improvement in reading' is a signpost
>that is often treated as a destination; what I am seeing in the video is
>beyond that. I see the focussed engagement as learners of the children which
>is expressed through their shared pleasure, cocreative energy, and their
>confidence.
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>Many thanks
>
>Marie
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: Margaret Farren <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Sent: Saturday, 17 February, 2007 6:58:36 PM
>Subject: Research based practice
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>Hi Jack and All,
>
>This morning I presented at the Computer Education Society of Ireland (CESI)
>conference with three of the teachers on the M.Sc eLearning programme at
>Dublin City University. A copy of our presentation is attached. I have
also
>video recorded the session and will have a look at the video over next few
>days. I wanted to communicate to the audience how I have generated my living
>educational theory of practice for my PhD research and to provide the space
>at this Conference for teachers on the masters programme to show how they
>are developing their theories of practice through masters research. Jack,
>as my PhD supervisor, I remember presenting you with a list of my values
>during my PhD research and I do remember your response ..... in a living
>educational theory approach the meanings of the living standards are expressed,
>not as concise definitions, but as clearly communicated meanings that emerge
>from enquiries of the kind, 'how do I improve what I am doing?'. The attached
>presentation has a link to my PhD research and you will see how the values
>in my pedagogy of the unique emerged through a commitment to a web of betweenness.
>It is through this process of clarifying the values in the course of their
>emergence in practice that transform them into living epistemological standards
>of judgement. The following article on the European Commission website at
>http://www.elearningeuropa.info/index.php?page=doc&doc_id=7020&doclng=6
> refers to how in my practice-based research, I demonstrate how I am contributing
>to a knowledge base of practice by creating my ?living educational theory?.
>I have tried to explain succinctly in this article.
>
>The presentation this morning provided the space for Donal, Teresa and Joanne
>to present their research based practice to a wider audience.
>
>Kind Regards.
>
>Margaret
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