Congratulations to Yvonne Crotty who this week was presented with the 2011 President's (of Dubln City University) Award for Teaching and Learning. You can access the news at:
http://www.dcu.ie/news/2011/may/s0511k.shtml
(The url to the 'Yvonne Crotty Citation' isn't working and I've told the webmaster at DCU)
Nominated candidates have to submit documentation to the University and here is Yvonne's documentation:
http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/crotty/yvonnecrottysupport.pdf
It's concise and well focused on her activities. One of the passwords to the visual resources in the last section is only available, at the present, to colleagues at DCU.
Yvonne is the Director of the 2011 DIVERSE conference at DCU on the 28th-30th June 2011 (Developing Innovative Visual Educational Resources for Students Everywhere). Do please access the details of DIVERSE 2011 to appreciate the scope of Yvonne's activities:
http://diverse2011.dcu.ie/welcome.html
I'm fortunate to be giving a joint keynote with Yvonne to DIVERSE 2011 on the 30th June and we shall be focusing on the theme of the Conference, "Creativity: Enhancing our Vision for the Future".
At the heart of our vision for the future are explanations of educational influences in learning (our own and others) - the focus of this thread in the practitioner-researcher e-seminar.
We'll send round a draft of our keynote well before our presentation to ask for your responses to help us to strengthen the keynote.
My own contribution to the keynote will focus on enhancing our understandings of explanations of educational influences in learning and will include the following insights from Shawn Wilson:
"The responsibility to ensure respectful and reciprocal relationships becomes the axiology of the person who is making these connections. We must also be responsible in our choice of where we will build these powerful connections as we choose the topics of our research. Do we want to give more strength to the connections that our building our forms into that which we can see as beautiful and positive, or give strength to connections that are detracting us and moving us away from the form we would like to take? Our axiology demands that we be accountable to these relations that we form. (p.79)
Within an Indigenous research epistemology and ontology is the recognition that research and thinking need to be (and are) cultural based. Of course all philosophy is based upon a culture, a time, a place. It is impossible for knowledge to be acultural (Meyer, 2001). We need to recognize that this is an important part of how all people think and know (not just Indigenous people). Once we recognize the importance of the relational quality of knowledge and knowing, then we recognize that all knowledge is cultural knowledge. The foundations of this cultural knowledge guide the way that our societies come to be formed…. "(p.91)
Wilson, S. (2008) Research as Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods. Nova Scotia; Fernwood Publishing.
The work of Yvonne's students will be featured in a 2011 Special Issue of the Educational Journal of Living Theories (EJOLTS) and I (or Maggie - the Chair of the Editorial Board) will send round details on access as soon as it is published. For the current issue and archive, plus the open review process of EJOLTS see http://ejolts.net/ .
Love Jack.
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