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Hi all - a very interesting discussion! My husband  and I have had a paper accepted for ALARA entitled "Can the goldfish see the water? A consideration of 'good intentions' in cross-cultural practice" in which we discuss just these issues. It will eventually be available from the ALARA website I would imagine.

But meanwhile, you may be interested in a paper we cite in that discussion, by an Australian called Damien Riggs. He critiques notions of benevolence as being 'inherently hierarchical'. If interested, go to http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament/issue4_Critique_Riggs.htm  (Just copy into your search engine - it works, I just checked to make sure I hadn't done a typo!)

Warm regards

Pip Bruce Ferguson

On 30/07/2010 4:56 a.m., Alan Markowitz wrote:

In servant leadership, we support the needs as they are identified by those we serve. It might be a good topic for you to research a bit. See greenleaf.org <http://greenleaf.org> . There is no intention of being a "benefactor"
Dr. Alan Markowitz
Director, Graduate Programs in Education
(973) 290-4328
 
 
 
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Barra Hallissey <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 

For me good intentions are not enough - every scoundrel claims at one time or other to be serving the needs of others as defined by the scoundrel him/herself.
So who identifies what the 'needs of others' are?  
 
Do you trust others to identify their own needs?  
 
What if their needs don't square with what you consider they should be, what you research priorities are, interests etc ... ?
 

 
 
PS - I'm not inferring that anyone here is a scoundrel or anything like that, so please don't take offence where none is intended.
 

 
 

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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:31:44 -0400
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Hi,
 
We heartily agree. Our action research allows us to serve the needs of others whether they be students or educators.
 
Alan
 
 

Dr. Alan Markowitz
Director, Graduate Programs in Education
(973) 290-4328
 
 
 
 
 
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Margaret Riel <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 

Hi all,

 
 
We also teach service  or servant leadership in our program at Pepperdine as well.   We think that it is important for action researchers to see that they can be lead from any seat, but that leading doesn't mean taking charge.  We think that the real mark of leadership is to  bring forward the best effort in those that make up any community-- to develop expertise in the people who are engaged in the work.  Often, offering to help is a way to get people engaged in inquiry. And inquiry is the path toward expertise.  So spreading the mindset of an action researcher with others (inviting your co-workers to be co-researchers) is a great act of leadership.
 

 
 
Warmly, 
 

 
 
Margaret Riel
 

 
 
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Charlie Naylor <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 

 
 

Hi, Alan, would be very glad to exchange information and will send you some more about the BCTF’s work when I am back in the office – currently I am on holiday on an island with dial-up access only so it takes a while to send any attachments/links etc.
 

 
 

All the best,
 


Charlie
 

 
 
 

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Hi Charlie,
 
 
 

I am impressed with your work in teacher inquiry and teacher leadership. All of our graduate programs involvee action research and view all educational practitioners in a Servant Leadership model. We have over 200 Action Research projects in our files and would be interested in a collaboration, We are a small Catholic college in New Jersey..
 

Dr. Alan Markowitz
Director, Graduate Programs in Education
 
The College of St. Elizabeth
 
 

(973) 290-4328
 
 
 
 
 

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Charlie Naylor <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 

Thanks, Jack.  I am the Senior Researcher with the British Columbia Teachers' Federation (BCTF) in Vancouver, Canada.  The BCTF is the only teacher union in the province of BC and represents over 40,000 teachers in Kindergarten-Grade 12 public schools.
The BCTF has been involved in supporting teacher inquiry for some years, and this next year we are hoping to have at least ten projects across the province.  Last year we had over 200 teachers participating in union-led teacher inquiry.  We have a team of 18 facilitators who meet with Inquiry groups and these facilitators receive training in building and extending facilitation of teacher inquiry.
I completed my PhD at the University of British Columbia in 2007 which focused on teacher inquiry as professional development.  Another research interest is in teacher leadership where I have partnered with other teacher union and academic researchers in a number of countries including Australia, England, Scotland, the Republic of Ireland and the USA.  This work explores the nature of teacher leadership in professional development.
 
Cheers,
 
Charlie Naylor
 
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Welcome to Naretha Pretorium, Rachel Perry and Charlie Naylor who have recently joined our e-seminar.
 
Dear Naretha, Rachel and Charlie - do please post a some details of your context and research interests.
 
Leo Chivers joined the e-seminar some time ago and here are some details of Leo's interests:
 
 
Leo is a  Senior Lecturer in Early Years and Professional Development in the School of Education at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK. Leo writes:
 
"I have previously worked as a leader and manager in Children’s Centres, Sure Start, health services and disability fields. This in turn led me to be involved in the delivery of programmes about the Leadership of Integrated practice (e.g. the NPQICL National Professional Qualification in Integrated Centre leadership). Much of my work has been about the leadership of reflective practice in inter-professional learning communities.
 
I am in my second year of an Ed.D. and my research is about contrasting the lived experience of inter-professional interactions with the outcomes – driven policy framework for children’s services in the UK.  I am using phenomenology as a way to explore this and to discover what types of learning helps develop awareness of these interactions.
 
I definitely feel I am operating at a  "beginner's stage" but have indeed been fascinated by some of the contributions made in this community and am sorry that I have lurked on the periphery for so long ."
 
Love Jack.