Jack,
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Nathalis
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jack Whitehead <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, November 13, 2010 8:55 am
Subject: Practitioner Research in South Africa
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> 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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