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Welcome to Leo Chivers from the University of Hertfordshire who joins our e-seminar today. I've asked Leo for some details of his research interests to share. I've also some ideas to share from yesterday's Creativity/Works conference with Andy Henon from North East Somerset Arts (NESA), that relate to Alan's Treeworks video and to last week's conference in Pozega, Croatia on Creativity in Teacher Education. You can access the publication Creativity/Works from: http://www.jackwhitehead.com/henon/creativityworkslowah.pdf Robyn, Marie and Andy have also contributed to the publication. I do hope that you will download and browse through it. It's a great contribution to the archive of the e-seminar and I think you'll see its relevance to our seminar from Andy's statement on page 106: "For creativity to work you need strong social networks, clarity of communication and trust. Trust is a key factor and above all the hardest to mend once broken. The recommended approaches to this work are action research based and living educational theory is the advanced form of engagement. Here everyone involved in the project is exploring their own questions of the kind ‘How do I improve what I am doing’. If everyone from participants to organisation support staff are engaged in this key process it is possible to effectively improve outcomes for all and to continue questioning core values and principles ensuring good and best practice." (p. 106) As well as Andy's work as lead artist and editor in contributing to this outstanding publication I think that you will see Alan's influence with inclusionality being a main motivational value: "The Creativity|WORKS project has engaged with children and young people from early years to age 25, introducing a range of arts projects that link in with their families and communities, as well as involving them in designing and developing projects that they themselves have identified as important. The project has worked in areas of most need and the widening of access and inclusionality has been a main motivational core value and principle in an ongoing action research reflective process." (p.2) On the 30th June 2009 Alan gave a presentation in the Lecture Room of the Linnaean Society (see Alan's posting of the 1st October) where Darwin and Wallace's paper on the 'Origin of Species' was first presented in 1858. In the first 8:06 minutes of Alan's presentation at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wORIPFa2sEk you can hear Alan explain that he believes Darwin's wonderful insight of the evolutionary kinship of all life on earth but questions (see 2:24minutes) Darwin's idea of natural selection as the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for survival because of the damage the idea is doing to our understandings of the evolutionary kinship of all life on earth. On looking at the images, reading the text and accessing the live urls in Creativity/Works it seems to me that Andy's editing has helped to produce an inclusional text that lives the value of collaboration. Creativity/Works is I think consistent with the creative insights offered by Alan on inclusionality. Branko hopes this coming week to post the Proceedings from the Conference in Pozega, Croatia on Creativity in Teacher Education at the site of the Educational Journal of Living Theories (EJOLTS) at http://ejolts.net/ . When he does this I'll draw your attention to the contributions by Marie from her research in Bath and North East Somerset, Margaret and Yvonne from their research at Dublin City University and from researchers in Turkey and Kenya who also offer their living theories from their practitioner research into improving practice and generating knowledge. In one workshop it was a delight to hear three Croatian teachers praise Moira's contribution to their learning through her responses to their draft action research reports and video-clips of their classroom practices. A great start to the October 2009 phase of the e-seminar. Love Jack.