Dear Moira, Pip, Alan, Joan, Barry, Robyn, Margaret, Jean, Je Kan and all,

Like Robyn I’ve been most appreciative of the latest postings and in responding I feel 
very close to Pat D’Arcy’s ideas in her thesis (http://www.actionresearch.net/pat.shtml ) 
where Pat emphasizes the importance of making aesthetically engaged and appreciative 
responses to each others narratives. Moira’s writings always inspire me and I owe my 
understanding that standards of judgment in living theories are living themselves, to 
Moira’s insights.
 
I’m wondering if we can continue to extend the influence of our thinking on explanations 
of educational influence into Research Intelligence. As many of you know RI is the 
newsletter of the British Educational Research Association. You can access the back issues 
from the BERA website at http://bera.ac.uk/publications/ri.php . In issue 102 (2008) Pip 
began the dialogue on the epistemological transformation in what counts as educational 
knowledge. I followed this with a response in issue 103 and Moira and Je Kan followed up 
with responses to Pip and me in issue 104. I’ve submitted the attached couple of pages 
for issue 105 due out next month.  Because RI is now distributed electronically it can 
contain live urls that open up the possibility of showing multi-media explanations of 
educational influences.  I’m in no rush for responses to the points I’ve made in my 
submission to RI. You will see that I’m claiming that Moira’s inclusion of the live url for 
the first issue of the Educational Journal of Living Theories in RI has opened up an 
exciting possibility for supporting Pip’s points about an epistemological transformation in 
educational knowledge. Je Kan’s contribution draws on Margaret’s work at Dublin City 
University on a pedagogy of the unique, in stressing the importance of:
 
“An energy flowing, living standard of inclusionality as a space creator for engaged 
listening and informed learning is offered as an original contribution to knowledge in my 
doctoral thesis (Adler-Collins, 2007).” 

This reference to Je Kan’s thesis in RI includes the live url to take you directly to it on-
line.  I hope you enjoy the brief submission to RI. If it is published I’ll let you know and if 
you fancy it you could respond in RI as we keep the dialogue going in this forum.

Love Jack.