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Hi Alan, Anat, Geisha and all
I posted not expecting anyone would want to read what I am working on but wanting to place it in the space none-the-less for various reasons, which I wont elaborate on here other than to say that in your responses I have learned to be appreciative of the pressure I experienced to walk my own talk and offer without expectation. (If you cant open the attachment you might want to try having downloaded from http://www.actionresearch.net/bera09/mhberadr040809.pdf)

I really appreciate your responses and when I have stepped back from the paper a bit will be able to redraft with them to help me. Alan - I couldnt find where to access your presentation and I think the language and thinking of your ecological understanding would be most helpful.

You finished your note with
'Now, for the purpose of reaching a wider audience, what might we call such a movement? Or do we already have a name for it?'

I think that doing what we are each doing, offering with hope but not expectation, is reaching a wider audience by offering a non-impositional invitation into a cocreative space. Nothing happens without movement and people being prepared to move in their thinking, their learning, their way of being. What to call such a movement? Life-affirming, life-enhancing, chi, love, friendship, empathetic resonance, cosmic harmony, systemic evolution... I think there are many names and hope that in co-creating a language we might contribute to the evolution of the movement rather than to lexically pinning.

Enjoy the smile you have given me and pass it on
Marie

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Dear Marie,
 
I think this is splendid! I might quibble a bit about choice of words here and there, but overall I think the message comes across very concisely and clearly, underpinned by sound evidence, illustrative examples and credible theorizing.
 
I think it does represent what is needed to co-create a new educational movement rooted in 'sense and sensibility' instead of 'pride and prejudice', one that incorporates the experiential learning and responsive receptivity of educators in a (truly) evolutionary co-dynamic. (see also  http://www.treeworks.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/07/27/seminar-xiii/
 
Now, for the purpose of reaching a wider audience, what might we call such a movement? Or do we already have a name for it?
 
 
Warmest
 
Alan
 
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Geisha wrote- 'How to research this teachers principles of teaching  in order to help them to develop new theories ??? Otherwise this will be a brainwash asking them to perform teaching at the USA standards with objectives  taxonomies, learning walks etc., that are foreign to them..... It also made me wonder how do you  rate or include  this foreign influences on the study of teaching principles. In addition from  your paper how do you make obvious different ecologies??'


I have found Geisha's postings very stimulating and thought provoking. I am very interested in similar questions. Although I am English working with teachers in England I think we are often strangers in our own practice expected to  perform to standards which are foreign to us as educators. I don't know whether this is of any help but I have been working on a paper for the BERA key note symposium 'Explicating A New Epistemology for Educational Knowledge with Educational Responsibility'. You can see how far I have got in the attached. I would welcome any responses. I hope that in sharing work in progress it might contribute to a culture that might be responsive to Alans invitation:
'Maybe we should co-create a 'movement'?'
Hope you find plenty to smile about in your new endevor.
Marie