In Australia at long last we seem to be experiencing a huge development in
the area we are calling "community engagement" - which has the potential to
nut through the transformations from competition to co-operation rapidly and
for/within practical contexts. I am excited that this new quality and form
of relationship will let "flow" (back) into our everyday as a matter of
course (ing!)......
Susan
On 21/9/07 11:28 PM, "Alan Rayner" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Lori,
>
> Yes indeed.
>
>
> Perhaps it is actually not the absence but the presence of competitiveness
> and associated hungriness for workers that is 'causing' deep-seated social
> problems. Perhaps an exposure of the fallacious logic that underlies
> Leahy's propositions is what is needed to alleviate the harm it does. If we
> can educate ourselves in a way that helps us to see though such
> self-perpetuating false impressions, maybe there can yet be hope for
> humanity. Let's hope so. Perhaps we shouldn't pay too much attention to
> Leahy and his like, by recognising that there is far, far more to education
> than superficial appearances.
>
>
> Warmest
>
> Alan
>
>
> --On 21 September 2007 10:32 +0100 "Beckett, Lori"
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> Thank you for your patience as I find my feet with the job of SIG
>> convenor, and put to bed our centenary book.
>>
>> I have been thinking about the SIG, and some discussions and debates we
>> need to engage. One of course is the profile of practitioner research,
>> its educational and social significance.
>>
>> This is apparent when one reads newspaper reports, like the one that
>> featured Sir Terry Leahy, CEO of TESCO, and -- I quote - his warning to
>> Gordon Brown that lack of basic skills is harming competitiveness,
>> leaving firms hungry for qualified workers and causing deep-seated social
>> problems. His concern was that the government cannot expect companies to
>> make good the failings of schools (see p.1 and p.29 of the Guardian 12
>> September, 2007). The full text of his speech can be found at
>>
>> http://www.tescocorporate.com/page.aspx?pointerid=90658F8877CD4B8A93B567F
>> EA69A72FC
>>
>> There are so many things to say, not least about Leahy's view of global
>> society, late capitalism, contemporary Britain, education, schools, and
>> teachers' work. How does this stand in relation to the views of
>> theorising teachers? What are the parameters of their concerns in the
>> face of such trenchant criticism? Should we respond, as a community of
>> practitioners? If so, how?
>>
>> I look forward to a strident professional conversation.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Lori
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Professor Lori Beckett
>>
>> Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education
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