Thanks Brian- I read your work with great interest! I would love to have a conversation with you. What I do with ethics in the context of the training of student teachers is similar but there are also important differences. For example, one of the things that I explore is the question whether you have to be religious in order to be ethical (Rachels is useful there). My assessment is the application of a thinking tool on a professional dilemma from teaching practice. It has generated the most amazing and also disturbing learning. See one of my papers about it attached and I have also attached last year's course outline fyi.
Very best wishes
Karin
A/Prof Karin Murris (PhD)
School of Education
University of Cape Town
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My articles for download on: https://uct.academia.edu/KarinMurris/
Book: Haynes, J. & Murris, K. (2012) ‘Picturebooks, Pedagogy & Philosophy’. New York, Routledge. http://www.mindboggles.org.za/index.php/book-picturebooks-pedagogy-and-philosophy
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From: Action Research Africa Network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brian K Jennings
Sent: 19 March 2014 09:53 PM
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Subject: Re: Sharing explanations of your influence
Dear Jack,
I have long term project that I'm working on around a strengths / solution-focused approach to quality review by teams defining and building their own good practice. This is an institution wide project and will take some time to implement and then to evaluate the extent of my educational influence in this programme.
Having said this I have suddenly realised that I have all the elements of a 'small' living theory practice project to hand. My main teaching responsibility in the institution where I work is in the area of an introductory course in Christian ethics. Over the last few years I've been making incremental changes, especially in the area of assessment. The main innovation that I have made in recent years is what I originally called a 'case-study' but which I now realise is really a 'critical incident' assignment in which students are asked to make a ethical commentary using scholarly resources on a real-life moral dilemma. I developed this to try and 'design out' plagiarism from my course but I realised that it really captured my concern that (Christian) virtues be put to work in real life situations. A number of assignments made very sensitive explorations of moral challenges in faith-communities, families, and workplaces. Ethics is not about abstract principles and standards but about acting virtuously and compassionately in real life situations. I have module descriptors, samples of assignments and evaluations, notes from student presentations (I required them to make a presentation before their peers before writing their final draft) and because this is a third year class (in a four year degree) I have two cohorts of students (and some graduates) from whom I could gain 'influence' feedback. I can also gain feedback from my colleague who was the second marker for the course and some external examiner comment. I can give a narrative of the development of the assignment that includes my educational values, because of a another reflective learning project that I'm currently involved with I have a body of literature on the use of critical incident technique to provide a commentary on my practice and learners and colleagues to provide qualitative data on my educational influence.
Is this the kind of research that would be considered for publication?
What kind of permissions would I need, for example, from students to quote from their work and to use their feedback that I gather using (open-ended) questionnaires or interviews?
Best regards,
Brian
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From: Action Research Africa Network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jack Whitehead
Sent: 19 March 2014 11:09
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Subject: Sharing explanations of your influence
As a member of the Action Research Africa Network, I’m hoping that you will be interested in evaluating your influence in your professional practice and in SHARING your evaluations with others as you live as fully as possible the values that give meaning and purpose to your life. I’m thinking of your educational influence in your own learning, in the learning of others and in the learning of the social formations in which we live, work and research. Other colleagues of mine are connecting through the Educational Journal of Living Theories (EJOLTS) and you can access their stories at: http://ejolts.net
If any of the pages of EJOLTS require you to login with a password you can obtain these from Branko Bognar at: [log in to unmask] .
Prof. Moira Laidlaw has created a Facebook page for EJOLTS and you can access this at: https://www.facebook.com/ejolts
Dr. Jacqueline Delong has created a Linkedin Page for EJOLTS and you can request an invitation to join from: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=7464392&trk=anet_ug_hm
Love Jack.
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