Happy Birthday Jack - I wish I were there and able to come to some of your inspiring seminars.
PennyB.
On 8/30/09 1:42 PM, "Jack Whitehead" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Many thanks for yesterday's delightful surprise of the book with DVD on Validations on my 65th Birthday and on marking the end of my tenured contract at the University of Bath tomorrow the 31st August, after 36 years, and the beginning of my three year appointment as a Visiting Fellow in the University from the 1st September (just to stress that there's no retirement for Jack!)
The contributions to the book of Validations have transformed my expectations of our e-seminar. I've been focusing on gathering our narratives to enhance the knowledge-base of education. What the contributors to Validations have done for me is to pool their life-affirming energy with my own in their explicit acknowledgement of the resonance they felt with my recognition and affirmation of their life-affirming energy and values in the creation of their living educational theories. From reading the contributions I think that you will appreciate the significance of their gift in sustaining and enhancing my own passion for education and educational research. In the gathering of the contributions I can feel the significance of Robyn's alongsideness, Moira's and Joan's loving dynamic energy and Marie's loving recognition, respectful connectedness and educational responsibility. Thank you.
Jack Whitehead
Validations
Part One <http://www.actionresearch.net/jackvalidation65/Oneopt.pdf><http://www.actionresearch.net/jackvalidation65/Oneopt.pdf> http://www.actionresearch.net/jackvalidation65/Oneopt.pdf
Part Two <http://www.actionresearch.net/jackvalidation65/Twoopt.pdf><http://www.actionresearch.net/jackvalidation65/Twoopt.pdf> http://www.actionresearch.net/jackvalidation65/Twoopt.pdf
Part Three <http://www.actionresearch.net/jackvalidation65/Threeopt.pdf><http://www.actionresearch.net/jackvalidation65/Threeopt.pdf> http://www.actionresearch.net/jackvalidation65/Threeopt.pdf
Part Four <http://www.actionresearch.net/jackvalidation65/Fouropt.pdf><http://www.actionresearch.net/jackvalidation65/Fouropt.pdf> http://www.actionresearch.net/jackvalidation65/Fouropt.pdf
In next Thursday's (3rd September) BERA keynote symposium on Explicating a New Epistemology for Educational Knowledge with Educational Researcher I'm hoping to sustain my expression of the qualities of the inclusional ways of being that you have shown me in the responses within Validations. You can access the contributions to the keynote symposium with Jean McNiff, Jane Renowden, Marie Huxtable and myself at http://www.jackwhitehead.com/bera/bera09keyprop.htm . Margaret Farren will be chairing the symposium with Christine Jones as discussant.
For those who can't be with us I'll post a review of the symposium in the week of the 7th September.
Love Jack.
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