Hello,
As I previously said, I am critically reflecting within my own
practice, on the meanings of a productive and meaningful heuristic
structure and a clear, convincing, ethical, epistemological and
educational nature of autoethnographical accounts and blogs (I am
increasingly researching and am intrigued by the power of blogs after
engaging with Lebanese blogs this summer during the Second Lebanon War,
as I was doing a very difficult autoethnographical account about
experiencing this war from abroad):
I am reflecting on the ostensive meaning and essence of a succint, to
the point, well-formulated, well-disciplined, self-critical and
critical account that is intentionally and applicably taking upon
itself and meaning to flow into public from within one's ontology and
ethics rather than force oneself into what one may take to be the
ontology and ethics of his/her potential readers: And trying to spill
and force out, elicit and provoke feelings and experiences upon the/its
readers.
This is is what I meant by the Serper's Deyakking of the Yakking award:
Marie and Sarah are showing me that I am right in their direct, succint
and to the point engagement that has taken me a very short time to read
and engage with and respond to:
I thank the two for this; And compliment them for winning the very
distinguished Serper's award: A check for milion dollars is in the
post: Near my porsche that is still parked in the shop for I chose
academia instead of more practical stuff.
Alon
Quoting Sarah Fletcher <[log in to unmask]>:
> Dear Marie and Everyone,
>
> Thanks for your question. in 2005, Annie and I worked together
> towards a paper for AERA. As I
> read Annie's accounts of trans generational educators' experiences
> and in particular as I listened
> to her in-depth research into metaphors they used, I was struck how
> her research was relevant not
> just to China and Chinese teachers, but to all (?) teachers globally.
> Teachers' metaphors acted as
> textual images bringing alive practice in classrooms thousands of
> miles away as a basis for critical
> engagement. I don't know how far you have shared your work on
> metaphor, Annie, and so I would
> rather hand over at this point to you. I am hoping you'll enable
> others, as you enabled me to read
> (what I consider to be) 'universal narratives' where Chinese teachers
> investigate their struggles and
> triumphs in practice. I have yet to write up the paper I presented
> for us at AERA on metaphor as a
> basis for action research, where I analysed accounts by teachers in
> China at TeacherResearch.net
> It was well received and this is on my 'must do' list! I'll send you
> a draft once it is more advanced.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Sarah
>
> http://www.TeacherResearch.net
>
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