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Hi Christine/Lori/All Beautifully put! I just can't (and don't want to!) see myself as anything other than a 'practitioner researcher' - sometimes in school, sometimes in a university and sometimes in business. I do wish you had heard Sue Attard, head teacher at Lark Rise School holding us all spell bound as she talked about her reflexive/reflective research at our conference in Milton Keynes. In fact all the presentations were superb, crossing boundaries between what is sometimes deemed to reside in 'academic' and 'practitioner' territories. We were all academic-practitioner-researchers on Saturday but in different contexts, finding common ground between us and developing more by sharing. In BERA Mentoring-Coaching SIG, plans for our next conference are underway! I am very much looking forward to hearing from Lori and others on this list, Best wishes, Sarah On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 15:39:07 +0100, Christine BOLD <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Hi Sarah/Lori >I thought I would add my thoughts to this one. In the last two years in >particular it has come to my attention that some academics speak about >teachers in schools as practitioners but do not refer to academics as >such. >I am an academic and I believe I am also a practitioner and a teacher. >I don't think it is helpful to distinguish between the different levels >of practice/teaching/scholarship/research that we engage in. However, we >might have to acknowledge the different balance between those activities >and the different expectations of each type of role. We should all >practice the art of teaching. We should all be reflective practitioners. >Any of us might engage in scholarly activity at any level. A core value >ought to be one of reflexivity. > > > >Christine