> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 18:41:37 +0100
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> I’ve just posted at:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nvgooN2vvw
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> a 4:35 minute youtube video of Joan Walton and myself talking about Joan’s ideas for an international conference at Liverpool Hope University on ‘Researching Our Own Practice’. I’m hoping that you will join the conversation, perhaps through this 2012-2013 practitioner-researcher e-seminar, and make your own suggestions for the purposes and organisation of the conference and to spreading the influence of the transformation in consciousness that Joan is supporting and enquiring into.
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> I believe that the contributions to knowledge that we are making as practitioner-researchers are already contributing to this transformation in consciousness, especially in our use of multi-media narratives such as the one presented at AERA 2012 – see http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/aera12/jdjw140312aeraok.pdf
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> Today (1st October) is the deadline for submission of papers for the Special Issue of Teaching and Teacher Education (TATE) on ‘Scholarly Work Beyond Written Texts’ to be edited by Jean Clandinin and Mary-Lynn Hamilton. The call for papers states that:
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> “We are encouraging the alternative representation as integral to expressing the scholarly work rather than simply complementary or supplementary. As such, the electronic version of the article may be the focus and carry additional material to the print version but the print artefact will need to be informative with written text that points to the digital platform.”
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> In a message to members of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) of the 18th September 2012 William Tierney, the 2012-13 President of AERA, stated the need to rethink our publishing outlets and communications schemes.
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> Both TATE and AERA have much to do in advancing knowledge about education, encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and to promoting the use of research in improving education and serving the public good (Ball & Tyson, 2011).
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> Both TATE and AERA also have much to learn from the knowledge being created in the multi-media narratives of practitioner-researchers. I do hope that we can share, deepen and extend this knowledge in the coming year in our conversations on ‘Researching Our Own Practice’. Do please share your ideas on how we could develop these conversations.
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> Ball, F. B. & Tyson, C. A. (2011) American Educational Research Association 2012 Annual Meeting Call for Submissions Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Retrieved 8 July 2011 from
> http://www.aera.net/uploadedFiles/Publications/Journals/Educational_Researcher/4004/198-220_05EDR11.pdf
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> Love Jack.