Jeremy has posted my introductory notes for the BERA Practitioner-Research SIG e-
discussion from 16-22 February on an epistemological transformation in educational
knowledge, on the new BERA website together with the instructions on how to join. These
are repeated below and I hope that you will give me the pleasure of your company in the
BERA e-discussion. Given that this is the first e-discussion on the new web-site for the
SIG I imagine that we are bound to experience a few problems as we become familiar
with how to use the new facility. (There are many non BERA members in this practitioner-
researcher e-seminar on JISCmail and I'm hoping that you will also join in the discussion,
using the instructions below).
What I'm going to do in my first posting on Monday is to focus on two video clips of the
energy-flowing and values laden nature of the standards of judgment in my
epistemological transformation of my educational knowledge.
With Dr Moira Laidlaw's original insight about the living nature of educational standards of
judgment, I transformed my understanding of standards of judgment into a living form.
The 1.04 minute video of Moira shows her expressing a life-circulating energy and a
loving warmth of humanity at the end of a lesson with some 80 students at Ningxia
Teachers University in China. I want to start with this clip because it focuses on the
expression of the embodied knowledge of an educator in her educational practice with her
living standards of judgment.
'Moira Laidlaw, non-verbal communications in China' at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1jEOhxDGno
The 5:08 minute clip of Dr. Alan Rayner below shows the original communication that
helped me to transform my epistemological understandings from positivist and dialectical
into the educational epistemology of inclusionality.
'Alan Rayner on Inclusionality, Boundaries and Space – 5:08 minutes'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVa7FUIA3W8
By starting with visual records of educators in their educational practice I hope to focus
our attention on the new energy-flowing and values-laden standards of judgement that I
am claiming have contributed to an epistemological transformation of educational
knowledge. Over the next week I am hoping that you will help me to test the validity of
this claim.
Love Jack.
Here are the joining instructions - looking forward to your company in the BERA
Practitioner-research SIG e-discussion:
Joining the BERA VRE
go to <http://groups.tlrp.org/>
create an account (link below login)
Joining a BERA SIG Worksite (e.g. BERA Practitioner)
If you are already a member of the VRE system then:
log into the VRE
go to "courses and projects" (top menu)
click on "joinable courses and projects"
find the "BERA Practitioner" VRE in the list
click "join" (on the right)
Once you are a member of the VRE and have joined the SIG worksite then it will be listed
on your "startpage" whenever you log in.
Your settings - IMPORTANT
You can tailor your settings individually depending on how you want to use the worksite.
This will affect whether you receive a notification by email of messages, announcements
or new resources being added to the site. This does not affect your access to the site via
the main log in so even if you turn off email notifications you can still log in and
participate as you wish.
log in
go to "personal tools" (top menu on your startpage)
go to "my settings" (left menu)
adjust your settings as you wish
How to take part in an online discussion
Log in to the BERA VRE
Go to the BERA Practitioner worksite
Click on "Forums" (left hand menu)
Click on the active e-discussion topic
post your message
Please note the following:
A Forum is a general heading (online discussions)
A Topic is subcategory of a Forum (case based learning)
A Thread is a discussion issue within a Topic
You can create a new thread of the discussion or reply to an existing message thread
within a topic.
Help with the VRE
If you have any problems with the VRE system please check the advice on the "Help" link
on your startpage (top menu).
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