Dear Susan,
Just to be slightly nit-picky in an inclusionally meaningful way: I see the
transformation as being from 'competition and co-operation' to
'co-creativity and co-experience', or from 'polarization to
complementarity'. Notions of competition and co-operation pre-assume the
existence of isolated entities in the first place - i.e. they arise from
definitive logic.
Love
Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: Susan Goff <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 23 September 2007 01:48
Subject: Re: Convenor of BERA Practitioner Research SIG 2007-10
> 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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