On 4 Apr 2008, at 10:18, Sarah Fletcher wrote:
Hi Jack,
How did you develop the value of inclusionality as a basis for life
affirming energy.
Hi Sarah - Your question assumes that I developed the value of inclusionality as a basis for life-affirming energy. I'm certain that I haven't claimed to have done this.
On 4 Apr 2008, at 19:31, Marie Huxtable wrote:
Does anyone in the e-seminar have any ideas on how we might enhance the academic status of our practitioner-research with the perspective of 'Fellow Travellers'. I'm also wondering about the value of Jack's idea of placing our living theories or explanations of our educational influences in the boundaries of cultures in resistance. It does appear to open up possibilities for engaging with cultural influences in the generation of our explanations.
I think Pip is showing the way forward on this with her latest writings in Research Intelligence on 'Increasing Inclusion in Educational Research: Reflections from New Zealand' (Issue 102, pp. 24-25). I think you can access this from
http://www.bera.ac.uk/publications/ri.php . Pip writes:
"In this brief paper, I want to note the changes that have occurred in how research is carried out, funded, presented and assessed in the time I have been a practitioner-researcher, and the attempts that I have observed in include more diverse perspective and presentation styles in research. I want to suggest that these changes are indicative of an epistemological transformation in what counts as educational knowledge." (p.24).
Pip refers to Eden's research as a 'really positive and healthy move in educational research when approaches such as action research, incorporating critique from an African perspective such as Charles has used, are now readily accredited by the academy.'
Pip is also advocating the inclusion of alternative cultural perspectives in 'what counts as research'.
What I'd like to do is to focus some effort on publishing our practitioner-research that shows this epistemological transformation. Je Kan will be coming over from Japan to graduate on the 25th June here in Bath. He will also be leading a seminar on the epistemological significance of his doctoral research for educational knowledge. You can access the Abstract and contents of Je Kan's thesis at
http://people.bath.ac.uk/edsajw/jekan.shtml .
Pip is visiting the UK and participating in the Senior Common Room Educational Conversation at the University of Bath on the 21st April so we might use these events to further focus our thoughts on the epistemological significance of our explanations of our educational influences in learning. Thanks Marie for the affirming responses to the video and paper of the keynote to ICTR 2008. I haven't felt such a pleasure in a move forward in my own thinking since that 1989 presentation on creating living theories from questions of the kind, 'How do I improve my practice?'.
Love Jack.
