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Dear Alan (and all), Many thanks for your response to my writings on pages 28-29 of the Open Dialogue section of the BERA publication, Research Intelligence, No. 105. The issue has gone live this week on the BERA website at http://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/category/publications/ri/ . From this website you can access Pip's contribution in No. 102 that started the conversation on the epistemological transformation in educational knowledge, my response in 103, Moira's and Je Kan's responses in 104 and my latest response in 105. Brian - I know you are interested in the comprehensibility of the language of inclusionality and this coming Monday evening the conversation in the Senior Common Room at the University of Bath is focused on the question 'What does it mean to include humour and vulnerability, in flows of life-circulating energy, into our educational practices and educational theories?' The details for this coming Monday evening's SCR educational conversation can be accessed from: http://www.bath.ac.uk/internal/scr/scr-news.html The details include access to a keynote symposium proposal, for BERA 09 this coming September in Manchester. The proposal continues an exploration of the implications of Alan's ideas/theory of inclusionality for educational research and theory generation. On Monday evening I'm hoping to explore with Alan ways in which the ideas in the keynote symposium proposal (with Jean, Marie and Jane and with Maggie as the proposed Chair) could help to evaluate the validity of inclusionality in the process of seeking to spread the influence of the ideas. (In other words travelling with the hope that the ideas are valid but being open to evidence that shows they could be mistaken!). Jean has submitted a symposium proposal for the BERA 09 conference with colleagues from York St. John University with a focus on "Institutional research: How do we influence processes of epistemological transformation through the creation of academic practitioners’ living educational theories of practice?" . Jean is now working as a Professor of Educational Research at York St. John University. Congratulations to Jean on her appointment. In relation to Monday evening's conversation if any participants in the e-seminar has integrated representations of flows of life-circulating energy in their explanations of educational influence do please let me know before the conversation so that I can include them. I'll be booking this coming week for the Conference on 'A Creative Approach to Teacher's Education' in Požega, Croatia, in September 2009 - see http://ejolts.net/conference. I'm hoping to see as many as possible from the e-seminar at the conference. Love Jack.