From: Action Research Africa Network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Wood, Lesley (Prof) (Summerstrand Campus South)
Sent: 15 November 2010 11:58
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Subject: Re: Transformative Education/al Studies (TES) congratulations again

Prof Lesley Wood

Head: Action Research Unit

Faculty of Education

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

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African proverb - "If you want to walk fast, walk alone, but if you want to walk far, walk with the other people"

Good Day Joan

May I add a hearty congrats from the (silent) North!  Well done!  A victory indeed for, as Joan aptly calls it, self-study research - leveling the ground between traditional research and everything else...

Pieter  

>>> Joan Lucy Conolly <[log in to unmask]> 11/15/2010 6:47 AM >>>

Dear Naydene

Thank you for your good wishes and congratulations! Yes, is this not just too too good!!! We are so excited and delighted that our South African national research funder has seen enough merit in self study to fund our self study project so generously. This is such an encouraging vote of confidence in self study as research. I hope that this will encourage other NNRF 'bids' in 2011 for 2012. And even earlier than that. Our last series of workshops with Jack Whitehead was partially funded by the NRF Visiting Scientist Fund. Perhaps others would like to apply ...

Our TES consortium has its first meeting by teleconference on 7 December when we will be planning the project's activities for the three years. Already we are talking about two seminars in 2011, and according to the original proposal other universities will be invited to participate along the lines of the NMMU seminar in 2010. Jack Whitehead has already agreed to visit us again in mid 2011, which is very encouraging.

Take care
Joan

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From: Action Research Africa Network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of de Lange, Naydene (Prof) (Summerstrand Campus South)
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 5:42 AM
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Subject: Re: Transformative Education/al Studies (TES) congratulations again

And i add to the congratulations!  A well-deserved and timeous research project!
Kind regards
naydene
Naydene de Lange (Prof)

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From: Action Research Africa Network [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jack Whitehead [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 13 November 2010 02:29 PM
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Subject: Transformative Education/al Studies (TES)

Congratulations to Prof Joan Conolly (lead investigator), to Prof Thenjiwe Meyiwa of Walter Sisulu University and to Dr. Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan of the University of KwaZulu-Natal on the success of their proposal to the National Research Foundation of South Africa for a three year investigation into Transformative Education/al Studies (TES).

You can access details of the proposal at:

http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/southafrica/TESproposalopt.pdf

Looking forward to seeing how the influence of this investigation spreads throughout all Higher Education Institutions in South Africa and beyond. Maybe ARAN can help with this.

I do hope that everyone will get a copy of B. P. Singh's book When the Chalk is Down - see http://whenthechalkisdown.com/  - and respond on his web-site. It seems to me that the values expressed and lived so authentically by BP, in this land issue narrative and living theory, are those that should distinguish the development of South Africa.

I liked Lesley's recent point about sharing our understandings of Ubuntu and looking forward to sharing accounts of the implications for improving practice and generation knowledge of living with an Ubuntu way of being. My present understandings
are influenced by:

Eden Charles' Ph.D. (2007) Thesis, How Can I bring Ubuntu As A Living Standard Of Judgment Into The Academy? Moving Beyond Decolonisation Through Societal Reidentification And Guiltless Recognition. Graduated from the University of Bath, 28 June 2007.

You can access Eden's thesis at:

http://www.actionresearch.net/living/edenphd.shtml

Love Jack.

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