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Hi Jack/All I agree that Dean Tian has written a wonderful paper and I admire and respect the work that he and Moira are doing together. I am delighted to hear that the session you held last night at 'the other university!" in Bath went well. Last Friday I had the enormous pleasure and privilege of spending a whole day with Dean Tian and Mr Gao at The John Bentley School and later Bath Spa where Moira joined us. I wish you could have been there. You'd have been welcome too I like the idea of reviewing Dean Tian's paper here and since it is now in the public domain would like to include it in a web-based tribute to the work that he, the teachers and Moira are doing together in Guyuan. More details soon ..! Warm regards (Phew very warm! It's really hot weather here in Bath right now!) Sarah -- Sarah Fletcher http://www.TeacherResearch.net Quoting Jack Whitehead <[log in to unmask]>: > Tian Fengjun is the Director of China's Experimental Centre for Educational > Action Research in > Foreign Languages Teaching. Moira Laidlaw is working as a consultant to the > Centre as she moves > into her fifth year on Voluntary Service Overseas in China. Action Research > Expeditions - an e- > journal hosted by the University of Montana in the US has just published > their paper: > > How can we enhance educational and English-Language provision at our Action > Research Centre > and beyond? > at > http://arexpeditions.montana.edu/docs/articles.php > > I think this paper is of particular value for the review phase of our seminar > because Tian Fengjun > and Moira Laidlaw demonstrate an understanding of the standards of judgement > and educational > theories they are generating and using to account to themselves and others > for their practitioner- > researcher. Some 2,500 years ago the Greeks carved above their temples 'Know > Thyself'. These > two educators, from very different cultures, show how they are helping each > other to do just that > as they explore their educational influence together. The quality of their > collaboration carries to > me their life-affirming energy with their hope for the future of humanity. > They expressed this > energy and hope in a seminar last night at the University of Bath and I think > you will feel both of > these qualities flowing through their paper. > > One of the innovations I like in Action Research Expeditions is the 'Discuss > this paper' Forum and > I'm looking forward to sharing responses to the paper in this forum as well > as our own. > > Love Jack. >