Congratulations to Bayo - and all of us, actually, who live in hope of the kind of peaceful revolution of which this might be one of the spearheads!
Sara Salyers,
Instructor, Media Studies
Pellissippi State Community College
"I have come to a frightening conclusion. I am the decisive element in the classroom. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather ... I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration." Haim Ginott
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From: Practitioner-Researcher [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jack Whitehead [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 6:54 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Researching Our Own Practice
Dear Lawrence, Aga, Joan, Sara (and all),
Some good news from Bayo Akomolafe about his contribution to building a global citizen's movement. Bayo is a lecturer at Covenant University in Nigeria.
On 16 Aug 2013, at 07:58, bayo akomolafe wrote:
Wanted to share this thrilling news with my good friends and dear mentors!
This is an unprecedented moment in our collective transitioning to a more sustainable world - and I have been asked to be its voice.
Thank you making this happen in your unique ways.
(The mail is below)
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From: Jennifer Brown <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
To: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 3:10 PM
Subject: Invitation for Keynote Speaker Address at DEEEP Global Conference "Building a Global Citizens Movement" 11th-12th November, Johannesburg, South Africa
Dear Mr Akomolafe,
You are warmly invited by DEEEP, CIVICUS and GCAP to present the keynote speaker address at the Global Conference "Building a Global Citizens Movement" on 11th - 12th November in Johannesburg, South Africa. This is a unique event, which will bring together Civil Society Organisations and Civil Activists from around the world.
I have attached a PDF invitation for your information and consideration.
We look forward to hearing from you and hope that you accept our invitation.
Kind regards,
Jennifer Brown
DEEEP/CIVICUS Convening Consultant
November Civil Society Week 8th-15th November
Some more good news from SAGE:
On 15 Aug 2013, at 15:51, UK SAGE Author Services wrote:
Dear Author
We are pleased to say that your article Living educational theory research as transformational continuing professional development will appear in print in Volume 29 Issue 3 September 2013 pp. 219 - 224.
We are sorry we cannot tell you the exact day of online publication (we expect this to be within the next two weeks), but if you are registered for Contents Alerts, you will receive a message as soon as the issue is live. You can sign up for Contents Alerts from the Journal home page<http://GEI.sagepub.com/>
On issue publication, we will email you a PDF of the final version (including page numbers) for your own use. Please forward this to your co-authors.
Thank you very much for publishing with SAGE and we hope to work with you again soon.
Kind regards
Bali, Vinay
This themed issue contains the living educational theories of Amy Skuse, Vicky Tucker, Louise Cripps, Sally Cartwright, Joy Mounter and Ros Hurford - these writings have all been accredited for a masters unit at the University of Bath.
You can download the contributions from:
http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/gei/geicontents1212.docx
If you are producing your own living theories do please submit them to the open review process of the Educational Journal of Living Theories (EJOLTS) for consideration for publishing in 2014. You can see how the open reviewing process is working in relation to a submission by Sonia on 'A living theory of caring', with reviewers comments from Jerry Allender and Jane Spiro at http://ejolts.net/moodle/mod/forum/view.php?id=5 . If you haven't obtained a free registration for EJOLTS do please go to http://ejolts.net/moodle/ and on the right hand side in the Log In box, click on 'create a new account'. When you have registered you should then be able to access Sonia's draft and the responses from Jerry and Jane at http://ejolts.net/moodle/mod/forum/view.php?id=5 to show the open reviewing process at work and to participate if you wish.
Sonia and Shelagh have been working on their doctoral research proposals with responses from the Breakfast Cafe Conversation group that meets in Bath every Friday morning. You can access Sonia's proposal on "How does my lived experience, from being ‘a child in care’ to being a leader of a carers’ charity, sustain the hope that we can be the change we want to see in the world?"
at
http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/CPD/soniadrphdprop.pdf
You can access Shelagh's proposal on "How do I use my creativity to enhance my educational influence in working with scarred identities and ways of healing? Creating a Living Theory of the fluidity of culture and building strong plural identities."
at:
http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/CPD/Shelaghdrphdprop.pdf
If you have resources you would like to share from researching your own practice and explaining your educational influences in your living theory do please send them to me at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and I'll make them available from http://www.actionresearch.net . Some of us might consider focusing our 2013-14 enquiries on accounting for our influences in relation to living as fully as possible our value of being 'global citizens'.
Love Jack.
On 18 Aug 2013, at 06:17, Lawrence Martin Olivier wrote:
Hi Aga and Joan
I agree with you Aga, Joan's comments I also found very helpful and insightful, as Sara commented "beautifully expressed" - Joan brought a huge smile on my face! I too find Jack's living educational theory / action research approach, a very helpful tool to engage with "transformation" - beginning with the self, then the other and then on to the social formations. As I have mentioned earlier I connect too, to Wilber's Integral Theory / Quadrant.
Lawrence
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