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Hi Maggie I have just enjoyed your posting and reading your article again. Your posting is enabling me to build on Jean's and Jack's postings, and my other reading as I work to extend my understandings of living educational theory. The insights you offer through your work, and an indication of the commitment over time it took to generate your own living educational theory and produce an account of such quality is both instructive and inspiring. The video of the children - for me 'improvement in reading' is a signpost that is often treated as a destination; what I am seeing in the video is beyond that. I see the focussed engagement as learners of the children which is expressed through their shared pleasure, cocreative energy, and their confidence. Many thanks Marie ----- Original Message ---- From: Margaret Farren <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Saturday, 17 February, 2007 6:58:36 PM Subject: Research based practice Hi Jack and All, This morning I presented at the Computer Education Society of Ireland (CESI) conference with three of the teachers on the M.Sc eLearning programme at Dublin City University. A copy of our presentation is attached. I have also video recorded the session and will have a look at the video over next few days. I wanted to communicate to the audience how I have generated my living educational theory of practice for my PhD research and to provide the space at this Conference for teachers on the masters programme to show how they are developing their theories of practice through masters research. Jack, as my PhD supervisor, I remember presenting you with a list of my values during my PhD research and I do remember your response ..... in a living educational theory approach the meanings of the living standards are expressed, not as concise definitions, but as clearly communicated meanings that emerge from enquiries of the kind, 'how do I improve what I am doing?'. The attached presentation has a link to my PhD research and you will see how the values in my pedagogy of the unique emerged through a commitment to a web of betweenness. It is through this process of clarifying the values in the course of their emergence in practice that transform them into living epistemological standards of judgement. The following article on the European Commission website at http://www.elearningeuropa.info/index.php?page=doc&doc_id=7020&doclng=6 refers to how in my practice-based research, I demonstrate how I am contributing to a knowledge base of practice by creating my ?living educational theory?. I have tried to explain succinctly in this article. The presentation this morning provided the space for Donal, Teresa and Joanne to present their research based practice to a wider audience. Kind Regards. Margaret ___________________________________________________________ What kind of emailer are you? Find out today - get a free analysis of your email personality. Take the quiz at the Yahoo! Mail Championship. http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://mail.yahoo.net/uk