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Jack, my new email [log in to unmask] Nathalis New York ----- Original Message ----- From: Jack Whitehead <[log in to unmask]> Date: Saturday, November 13, 2010 8:55 am Subject: Practitioner Research in South Africa To: [log in to unmask] > Hi - I thought you'd like to see the note I've sent round the > Action Research Africa Network (ARAN) and the Collaborative Action > Research Network (CARN) earlier today. I think you will enjoy > reading the successful proposal on 'Transformative Education/al > Studies' that will be funded for the next three years. if you can > get a copy of B. P. Singh's book 'When the Chalk is Down' I think > you will find it an inspiring read. ARAN was officially launched at > the CARN study day at Durban University of Technology in South > Africa on the 29th October 2010. > > "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." >