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Terrific news - please pass on my congratulatiosns to Marian too, Jack

Sarah
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Sarah Fletcher
SL Mentoring and Induction, BSUC
http://www.TeacherResearch.net
Tel. 01225 875875


Quoting Jack Whitehead <[log in to unmask]>:

> I don't know of any other doctorate to be awarded to a
> practitioner-researcher during
> this e-seminar so it is a particular  pleasure to include the Abstract of
> Dr. Marian
> Naidoo's thesis in our Archive.  Marian had a successful viva-voce
> examination
> yesterday, the examiners' recommendations were accepted by the University of
> Bath
> today and Marian graduates  next Tuesday.  Delighted congratulations to
> Marian.
>
> Abstract  of Ph.D. Thesis of Marian Naidoo
>
> I am Because We Are (My never-ending story).
> The emergence of a living theory of inclusional and responsive practice
>
> I believe that this original account of my emerging practice demonstrates how
> I have
> been able to turn my ontological commitment to a passion for compassion into
> a
> living epistemological standard of judgement by which my inclusional and
> responsive practice may be held accountable.
>
> I am a story teller and the focus of this narrative is on my learning and the
> development of my living educational theory as I have engaged with
> others in a creative and critical practice over a sustained period of time.
> This narrative self-study demonstrates how I have encouraged people to
> work creatively and critically  in order to improve the way we relate and
> communicate in a multi-professional and multi-agency healthcare setting in
> order to
> improve both the quality of care provided and the well being of the system.
>
> In telling the story of the unique development of my inclusional and
> responsive
> practice I will show how I have been influenced by the work of theatre
> practitioners
> such as Augusto Boal, educational theorists such as Paulo Freire and drawn
> on,
> incorporated and developed ideas from complexity theory and  living theory
> action
> research. I will also describe how my engagement with the thinking of others
> has
> enabled my own practice to develop and from that to develop a living,
> inclusional
> and responsive theory of my practice. Through this research and the writing
> of this
> thesis, I now also understand that my ontological commitment to a passion for
> compassion has its roots in significant events in my past.
>