Jack

I enjoyed reading the presenter's notes for "To Know is Not Enough". I found the following affirming and illuminating;

The encouragement that action research gives to teachers as researchers with the focus on change;

The idea that knowledge needs to lead to social improvement to be useful;

The importance of promoting the use of research to improve education and to serve the public good;

The idea that we need to unlearn to be more creative in the classroom and to improve practice (and results?);

The difficulties of discussing how we should "be" with each other (our values) and at the same time examine power relations and structures of inequality. This is what I set out to do in my thesis



I thoroughly enjoyed reading Eden's thesis chapter on Ubuntu. It certainly made me think about the African perspective on the Ubuntu view of the world. I think I am coming to the conclusion that Ubuntu is more than a value and is more of a worldview or a way of life that incorporates a range of values, such as respect. I liked his description of 'living Ubuntu' on Page 110 which seems to me to express his ability to empathise and connect with other people because they are people.



Mark P

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From: Action Research Africa Network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jack Whitehead

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Subject: Sharing our Action Research Accounts



Just sharing three pieces of good news.



1) The proposal submitted by Kathleen Pithouse Morgan for a symposium at AERA 2012 in Vancouver has been accepted. Here are some details of the project and the proposal:



 Transformative Education/al Studies Project http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/southafrica/TESproposalopt.pdf



In this project, educators/postgraduate students in Higher Education

        will reflect critically on their learning, teaching, assessment, curriculum

        and/or educational professional practice in a variety of ways with the

        multiple benefits of improving the quality of their practice, earning the

        award of a senior degree and earning research outputs in the form of

        publications. This will simultaneously impact positively on the quality

        and rate of under  and post graduate throughput and research

        outputs……



The overarching research question, which when applied idiosyncratically yields a broad spectrum of insights and outcomes, is:



 "How do I transform my educational practice as .... ?" This research question can be applied in the individual's direct educational context, with innumerable responses and insights….



AERA 2012 (Vancouver) Symposium Title: “Starting With Ourselves”: Perspectives from the Transformative Education/al Studies Project:



http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/southafrica/TESAERA2012prop.pdf



2) The proposal submitted by Susan Noffke for a symposium at AERA 2012 in Vancouver has also been accepted:



AERA 2012 (Vancouver) Symposium Title: “To Know is Not Enough”: Action Research as the Core of Educational Research:



http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/aera2012/aerasym2012noffke.pdf



3) Ian Phillips has submitted his Doctoral Thesis for examination: My Emergent African Great Story: 'Living I' as naturally including neighbourhood, embodying an audacious Valuing Social Living Pedagogy and imagining the universe luminously, as an energetic inclusion of darkness throughout light and light in darkness:



http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/phillips.shtml



Ian shows how an individual researcher can research their own learning from an African perspective and create their own living methodology, grounded in their methodological inventiveness, as they create their own living theory as an explanation of their educational influence in their own learning, in the learning of others and in the learning of the social formations in which they live and work.



Looking forward to sharing your accounts.



Love Jack



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