I’m hoping that participants in the e-seminar will present posters at the BERA Practitioner-
Researcher Day on the 6th September at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh.  Do please put in 
your proposals – the deadline is the 31 July and the information for submission can be accessed 
from http://www.bera.ac.uk/ .  Jean McNiff, Marie Huxtable, Annie Zhang, Je Kan Adler-Collins 
and myself have already had posters accepted.

Je Kan  is helping to coordinate posters from Jean that will include her work with practitioner 
researchers in Khyletisha, South Africa, from Marie on Gifts and Talents in Education in Bath and 
North East Somerset in the UK, from Annie at Zhejiang University in China on uses of narrative in 
practitioner-researcher and from myself. I’m hoping to show connections with the practitioner-
researcher of Jacqueline Delong with 1st Nation groups in Ontario and with Joan Conolly on 
indigenous ways of knowing from Africa (see the video-clip of Joan expressing embodied 
knowledge at: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=O6GlugYuA1c  in the Senior Common Room 
educational conversation of the 30th June 2008 - I’ve also enhanced the sound on Alan’s ‘Tired of 
Waiting’ 2 minute clip at http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CseSJaodLog ) Joan is working at the 
Durban University of Technology in South Africa.

I’m also hoping to connect the posters on the 6th September with Swaroop Rawal’s work with 
principals in Gandhinagar in India where she is developing ideas from her doctoral enquiries on  
education/ Life skills and Coping skills through Drama (see 
http://people.bath.ac.uk/edsajw/rawal.shtml).  
Je Kan’s poster will include contributions from his doctoral enquiry into the development of a 
curriculum for the healing nurse at Fukuoka University in Japan (see 
http://people.bath.ac.uk/edsajw/jekan.shtml  .
The posters will also connect with Margaret Farren’s and Yvonne Crotty’s eLife Connecting People 
Project at Dublin City University. Margaret integrated the influence of a Celtic spirituality within 
her doctoral practitioner-researcher (see http://people.bath.ac.uk/edsajw/farren.shtml and 
Margaret’s web-site at: http://webpages.dcu.ie/~farrenm/

The posters will also connect with Marian Naidoo’s work on bringing together health 
professionals, educators, students and drama/theatre practitioners as Marian continues her 
explorations on how theatre, drama and film can be used in the education and training of health 
professionals. (see Marian’s abstract and doctorate at 
http://people.bath.ac.uk/edsajw/naidoo.shtml ) (Swaroop and Marian - I think that you would 
enjoy sharing ideas from your different contexts)

What I’m hoping is that these poster presentations on the 6th September at BERA, together with 
the process of their production, will help to spread the influence of a new epistemology for 
educational knowledge. I believe that this new epistemology has already been established in the 
living theory theses of practitioner-researchers as we show the meanings of our energy flowing 
values as explanatory principles in our explanations of educational influence. I’m claiming that 
the Practitioner-Researcher poster session will help to communicate its validity to a wider 
audience. Looking forward to responses to this claim as the posters are produced and shared with 
Je Kan’s help.
Love Jack.