My dad Dr Eddie Cumings passed away five years ago so could you please remove him from your contacts list for research. [log in to unmask]

Thanks
Samantha Cumings

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From: Practitioner-Researcher [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jack Whitehead
Sent: 14 January 2013 06:55 PM
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Subject: Re: Researching Our Own Practice

Dear All - I've read all the interesting and exciting postings from the 9th-14th 2013 January in the thread of our archives on Researching our own Practice at:

https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A1=ind1301&L=PRACTITIONER-RESEARCHER&X=1AA42C1112FC731471&Y=jack%40actionresearch.net

If you can't access the archives with this url, you can go into http://www.actionresearch.net and browse down the What's New section to our 'living archives'.

I'm hoping to have a chat with Margaret and Marie about how we might use google + to develop a co-operative enquiry during 2013 that includes an exploration of Sara's points:

"My proposition here, is that the values and morals we cherish in this community depend on the assertion that a human being is an end in himself or herself and not a means to some economic or social (whose society?) good. I suggest that this moves the arena of debate into ontology and opens the way to a new paradigm for collective endeavor, one that would inspire a new model for education. I would like to explore what this means, how Action Research and Living Theory express just such a paradigm and most of all, how would we build curricula for living around such a paradigm."

Brian is right in his response to Aaron that I've been addressing issues of language, methodology (and epistemology) in my educational enquiries. From my most recent practice, here is a 3:40 minute video-clip from Christine Jones' 'Ph.D. Confirmation Event', last Friday (11/01/13) at Liverpool Hope University. I'd like to share this with you as part of my enquiry into my educational influence, using multi-media narratives:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDOnjxrvQm4

The clip begins with Chris giving her responses to doing a traditional 'literature review'. It's the kind of review that many researchers are encouraged by supervisors to undertake in 'finding a gap' in the literature that their research can fill. 

The problem with this approach for practitioner-researchers, who are bringing about a transformation in what counts as knowledge, is that it isn't a matter of finding a 'gap'. It is a matter of making original contributions to knowledge that transform the way in which the knowledge is understood.

In the video-clip Chris moves on to talk about 'living empowerment'. As you see and hear Chris' communication I believe that Chris' embodied expression of 'living empowerment' may resonate with your own energy-flowing value of 'empowerment'. I am suggesting that the visual data enables meanings of 'living empowerment' to be communicated with greater validity than can be communicated with a printed text-based medium. (Chris has, of course, given her ethical approval for me to share this clip)

In terms of explaining my own educational influence in this context, I recognise that power relations are involved in the judgment, made by the other three participants, including myself,  that Chris' Ph.D. research programme can continue. What is exciting me about Chris' research programme is the possibility that her expression of 'living empowerment' and its inclusion as an explanatory principle and living standard of judgment, in a multi-media explanation of her influence, can help to legitimate this energy-flowing value in the Academy.

As part of a co-operative enquiry we could focus on Lonnie's information about the inaugural conference of the Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA) on the 1st/2nd May 2013 in San Francisco, immediately after the American Educational Research Association Conference. It might be possible for some of us to put in proposals and present our enquiries at ARNA. Liz, Jacqueline and myself are producing a multi-media account for presentation at AERA and I'm hoping that this will communicate the meanings of Liz's embodied expression of 'loving kindness' in her explanation of her educational influences with her students as well as Liz's experience of 'loving kindness' from Jacqueline in the tutoring of Liz's master's dissertation. 

I don't want to overload you with material and I'm not expecting you to look at this video of Jacqueline, Liz and myself in a conversation about our enquiry and presentation for AERA at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MPXeJMc0gU&list=UUnRjBfzn9T6gXC_QBmWAbJA&index=1

I just include it here to illustrate our intention to use this kind of visual data in the visual narrative of our co-operative enquiry.

I'm looking forward to exploring the use of google + to see if we can develop a co-operative enquiry (I know that Joan has already posted that this is what she would like to do) during 2013 as we continue to research our own practice. I'm also looking forward to meeting up with those of us who can make both AERA and ARNA.

Love Jack.
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