Welcome to Camilo Manchola from Columbia and Prof. Vantipa Roadrangka from Thailand who have joined the seminar.
Camilo sent a message to the inaugural conference of the Action Research Network of the Americas (1-2 May 2013) in San Francisco and you can access this from page 15 of my notes for the Action Research Workshop at:
http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/aera13/jwarnawork2013.pdf
or directly from youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_6ToT7jVww
I do hope that you will access Camilo's video because of the values he expresses that I think will resonate with those of everyone in the e-seminar.
Professor Vantipa is supporting the development of school-university partnerships with co-operating teachers in Thailand and encouraging the use of action research to help with enquiry-learning. This work is being supported by the Institute for the Promotion of Science and Technology. I was delighted to meet participants in the recent workshop on Action Research in Bangkok - see http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/jack/thaischedulemay2013.pdf - from Kasetsart, Thaksin, Prince of Songkla, Rajabhat, Rangsit, Burapha and Khon Kaen Universities, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology and the Institute for the Promotion of Science and Technology. The majority of the participants created their own spanglefish websites and you can access the initial action plans in the CPD Thailand section of http://www.spanglefish.com/livingvaluesimprovingpracticecooperatively/ - the web-space created by Marie Huxtable to support international CPD.
Geisha - I do agree with Lawrence that educators across the globe could all learn from your story from Caracas - so do please continue to share its continuing development with us. I also agree with Lawrence about the opportunity for 'creating cultures of inquiry'. Both Geisha and Vantipa might enjoy and find useful Jacqueline Delong's doctoral research programme into the creation of a culture of inquiry at:
http://www.actionresearch.net/living/delong.shtml
Love Jack.
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