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Dear Brendan

Please see my point of view below:

Your question is: how do I influence colleagues (if at all)

1.    Perhaps you can exert educational influence on colleagues in two ways:

·         By Exercising Innate Leadership Abilities

·         By Employing Designed  Activities to educationally influence on others

2.    and how do they influence me? 

·         It depends on the degree  and extent of your knowledge, understating and your perceived benefits of your new learning.

3.      What is the nature of this influence and how can it help me understand the idea of professional development and Inservice Training?

·         In service training is one of the techniques of professional development. In-service training is a process and professional development is the outcome.

·         Nature of influences can be explained in many ways:

Intensity of influence: i.e.: Some educational influences are temporary and some are permanent. In both cases, nature of influence is related to: what level and degree of knowledge you acquired and up to what degree and extent it managed to change your temporary or permanent behavior

·         Is Wenger's notion of the 'learning community' a valuable one here?

Gaining or exerting educational influence is independent to media of learning. One can receive educational influence from an individual, nature, learning community, conventional class-rooms, self-managed learning and so on.

 

Regards

Aga

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Dear All,   I want to look at the field of educational influence but in the sense of how do I influence colleagues (if at all) and how do they influence me?  What is the nature of this influence and how can it help me understand the idea of professional development and Inservice Training?  Is Wenger's notion of the 'learning community' a valuable one here?  Or has this concept been surpassed?  How can one try to understand the social formation in which one works in terms of professional development and one's own learning?  Has anyone any thoughts on this? Cheers, Brendan

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Huuum, avid action researcher that I think myself to be I have deep doubts about this influence issue. Firstly I question the need. Why is it necessary to see if your influence or not has had an effect or not on others? Secondly I struggle with understanding the limits of my own ignorance and see others as reflections of different aspects of my illusionary self.  I shy away from being an influence for good for the very question of good suggest that there is a bad the interesting question then surfaces in whose good is the better good?  one that I feel is destructive.  I live in an understanding that all actions, thinking and systems are connected, interconnected and interwoven. If one aspect moves, all aspects move as they are all in contestant states of movement any way. The separation of a self as an distinct individual, that is then empowered to be able to influence others is and distressing concept for me to sustain. Creating spaces within space where knowledge can be explored at the pace and understanding of the seeker appears to be a safer way that seeking to quantify influence.

Deepest respect

Je Kan