----- Original Message -----
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
