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From: Shelley Tracey <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sun, 3 January, 2010 15:21:59
Subject: Re: Explaining our educational influences in learn...

Dear All

Here in Ireland we have been graced by the delicate beauty of snow. I begin the year with my sense of wonder renewed; hope it's the same for you all.
I'd like to share with you this poem - I think it expresses some of the values which this group embodies.

POEM AT THE END OF THE YEAR

In this naked waiting space between the years,
the old sighs its withdrawal from the shore.
I am gazing out to sea for those who aren't returning,
graced by your steadfast presence,
as tenderly and fluently, in silent tidal rhythms,
we draw in the net of memory with its precious gifts together.

Best wishes to all for 2010

Shelley Tracey x


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From: Practitioner-Researcher [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jack Whitehead [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 02 January 2010 16:47
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Subject: Re: Explaining our educational influences in learn...

Here's wishing everyone a most enjoyable and productive New Year as 2009 ended and
2010 has started, unusually for Bath, with three beautifully clear and sunny mornings that
carried for me the life-affirming energy and hope of the second half of Alan's latest
poem.

I think that you might enjoy the collection of urls I used in a keynote to a conference at
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa on the 30th November at:

http://www.jackwhitehead.com/jack/jwnmmukey301109.htm

The urls enabled participants to access the 5 contributions to 2008-9 Open Dialogue
sections of the BERA newsletter Research Intelligence, from members of the practitioner-
researcher e-seminar (I think a sixth contribution, from Alan, is about to be published).
The audience response to Marie's paper on 'How do we contribute to an educational
knowledge base?' was particularly heartening as it showed that their imaginations had
been captivated by Marie's presentation on how to include video in visual narratives that
reveal the meanings of living educational values:

http://www.jackwhitehead.com/jack/jwnmmukey301109.htm

The urls also include the contributions to the keynote symposium at BERA in September
09 on an epistemological transformation of educational knowledge with educational
responsibility, from practitioner-researchers.

If anyone would like to contribute to a proposal for a keynote symposium developing
these ideas at the BERA 2010 Conference do let me know and we could work on it to
meet the 8th January deadline. The deadline for the normal conference symposia and
papers is 22nd January and you can access details of how to submit from the top menu
bar of http://www.beraconference.co.uk/ . Do please share any proposals, draft or final,
that you'd like responses to, in the e-seminar (this also goes for presentations at the
AERA Conference in Denver in April 2010). It's a great way to help everyone to
understand how our enquiries are developing.

Love Jack.