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Thanks Dianne - yes I use open office (can't stand Microsoft) and I forgot to resave it - here is the one that should work - glad you were interested and sorry it too a few days to get to this email, Alana On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Dianne Allen <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Alana, > > I was unable to access your file. My email reported a .odt file, which I > do not think I have the software to read ... > can you resend as either a pdf or rtf file please. > > Dianne > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* E. Alana James <[log in to unmask]> > *To:* [log in to unmask] > *Sent:* Monday, January 24, 2011 2:20 AM > *Subject:* Re: How to establish an environment that calls out the most and > the best of everyone > > Great - then whomever is called to work with us will follow this thread > with this heading - nice and easy idea Jack. > > Bob suggested that we start with a conversation about principles within our > work in AR that lead to an environment that calls out the most and the best > in us (do I have that right Bob?) > > I suggested that we play with how we allow for and move past naturally > defensiveness > > I also now want to add some discussion on reflection/reflexive thinking - > which was the greatest new learning for me that came out of my new book. > One of my reviewers hit me hard on not covering it well enough and I was > embarrassed but delighted to learn of the development of reflexion from > Schon (don't know how to make the umlauts over the o) and the Argyris with > double loop reflection - etc. > > Just in case I am not the only one who didn't follow these developments - > because I think they are perhaps crucial to environments that bring out the > best - Attached is a pull out from our chapter three on what AR is and how > we do it - bear in mind that this book is for graduate students doing AR for > the first time and is very pragmatic - touching lightly on theory but > heavily on the "how to do" aspects that I find many students struggle with. > > Anyway I am delighted for this conversation and I look forward to future > installments. > Alana > > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Jack Whitehead <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > >> "On 21 Jan 2011, at 13:46, E. Alana James wrote: >> >> how to establish an environment that calls out the most and the best of >> everyone...... >> >> Jack, can we look to you to organize a space for this or a way to cull >> this topic from the rest if on this list? >> >> Alana" >> >> Dear Alana (and all) I do like the idea of organizing a space to focus on >> this above Subject line - a great idea from Dianne and followed up by Bob. >> >> We could see if the space of the existing forum with this topic works for >> us. If it needs something different we could create a dedicated e-forum on >> JISCmail for just this topic. It might be that others on the list could >> offer a dedicated e-space for this topic and we could use that. >> >> Love Jack. >> > > > > -- > E. Alana James, Ed.D. > 8 Castlepark > Kinsale, Co Cork, Ireland > > www.futureofeducationproject.net > www.reinventinglife.org > > > James, Slater & Bucknam (2011 in press) *Action Research for Business, > Nonprofits, and Public Administration: A Tool for Complex Times.* Thousand > Oaks, CA: Sage publishing > > James, Milenkiewicz, & Bucknam, (2008). *Participatory Action Research for > Educational Leaders*. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage publishing > > -- E. Alana James, Ed.D. 8 Castlepark Kinsale, Co Cork, Ireland www.futureofeducationproject.net www.reinventinglife.org James, Slater & Bucknam (2011 in press) *Action Research for Business, Nonprofits, and Public Administration: A Tool for Complex Times.* Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage publishing James, Milenkiewicz, & Bucknam, (2008). *Participatory Action Research for Educational Leaders*. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage publishing