Hi - I thought you'd like to see the note I've sent round the Action Research Africa Network (ARAN) and the Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN) earlier today. I think you will enjoy reading the successful proposal on 'Transformative Education/al Studies' that will be funded for the next three years. if you can get a copy of B. P. Singh's book 'When the Chalk is Down' I think you will find it an inspiring read. ARAN was officially launched at the CARN study day at Durban University of Technology in South Africa on the 29th October 2010.
"Congratulations to Prof Joan Conolly (lead investigator), to Prof Thenjiwe Meyiwa of Walter Sisulu University and to Dr. Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan of the University of KwaZulu-Natal on the success of their proposal to the National Research Foundation of South Africa for a three year investigation into Transformative Education/al Studies (TES).
You can access details of the proposal at:
http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/southafrica/TESproposalopt.pdf
Looking forward to seeing how the influence of this investigation spreads throughout all Higher Education Institutions in South Africa and beyond. Maybe ARAN can help with this.
I do hope that everyone will get a copy of B. P. Singh's book When the Chalk is Down - see http://whenthechalkisdown.com/ - and respond on his web-site. It seems to me that the values expressed and lived so authentically by BP, in this land issue narrative and living theory, are those that should distinguish the development of South Africa.
I liked Lesley's recent point about sharing our understandings of Ubuntu and looking forward to sharing accounts of the implications for improving practice and generation knowledge of living with an Ubuntu way of being. My present understandings
are influenced by:
Eden Charles' Ph.D. (2007) Thesis, How Can I bring Ubuntu As A Living Standard Of Judgment Into The Academy? Moving Beyond Decolonisation Through Societal Reidentification And Guiltless Recognition. Graduated from the University of Bath, 28 June 2007.
You can access Eden's thesis at:
http://www.actionresearch.net/living/edenphd.shtml
Love Jack."
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