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Thank you so much Jack. Sent from my iPhone On 30 Jan 2013, at 10:15, Jack Whitehead <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On 29 Jan 2013, at 13:28, Brendan Cronin wrote: > > Sorry Jack but I accidentally erased the email you sent me about influence. Would there be a chance of sending it again. > > Dear Brendan and All - here is the note I posted about 'influence': > > > > My emphasis on influence came from a desire to recognise the importance of a creative response from students to what I was doing with them. I wanted to avoid a claim that I had 'caused' another person's learning in the causal sense that 'if I do this, then that will happen'. I like the way Said draws on the work of Valéry to emphasise the importance of influence: > > No word comes easier of oftener to the critic’s pen than the word influence, and no vaguer notion can be found among all the vague notions that compose the phantom armory of aesthetics. Yet there is nothing in the critical field that should be of greater philosophical interest or prove more rewarding to analysis than the progressive modification of one mind by the work of another. > Said, E. W. (1997) Beginnings: Intention and Method. p. 15. London ; Granta. > > > I stress the importance of educational influences in learning, rather than stressing learning on its own, because we can learn many things that do not enhance the flow of values that carry hope for the future of humanity. I associate these values with what constitutes the educational in educational influence. > > What I'm hoping is that we will share (preferably through the web) our evidence-based explanations of our educational influences in our own learning, in the learning of others and in the learning of the social formations in which we live and work. One of the latest evidence-based explanations of educational influence is > > Yvonne Crotty's Ph.D. (2012) Thesis, How am I bringing an educationally entrepreneurial spirit into higher education? Dublin City University, 2012. > > Yvonne's thesis was supervised by Margaret Farren and examined by Prof. Barry Hymer and Dr. Jane Spiro. > > Yvonne writes in her Abstract: > > The unit of appraisal in a living theory methodology is the explanation of the influence in my own learning, the learning of others and in the learning of social formations. The methodological inventiveness, particular to the Living Educational Theory methodology, has afforded me an opportunity to express who I really am; body, mind and spirit. I use multimodal forms to communicate and express of the nature of the knowledge that I am generating. I can now claim that my values have become living standards of judgement. > > Music plays an integral part of my life and has been a source of enjoyment and inspiration for me over the years. I have shown its importance by embedding it within my doctoral research to express and represent the meaning of emotion. > > I explain the importance of addressing emotion in education and the merits of reflecting on our experiences in order to become more educationally entrepreneurial, by taking risks, awakening our creativity and bringing ideas into action. > > You can access Yvonne's thesis at: > > http://www.actionresearch.net/living/yvonnecrotty.shtml > > Bonnie - I think that this might resonate with your own research interests in the 'entrepreneurial'. > > Love Jack.